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Frisk!
[Insert grumbling about akismet here]
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FRIST PROBABLY
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"In retrospect, they still may have been the most honest and the most ethical of all placement firms."
I'm sad to say how true that line is. We had so many problems with recruiters, and only threatening to drop them completely stopped them from sending us crappy candidates with doctored resumes. One of them hadn't even ever read what they produced for him.
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URL Rewriting mean the person wrote his own code insted of relying on url rewriting feature provided by webserver.
Why is this so complex to understand?
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Access is the ONLY way to go... if i had a penny for every single time I heard that. That's what happens when regular office personnel goes into programming. Then people start using the "shared" application from a network drive and before you know it's an enterprise level solution with a 2GB size limitation... well, 640kb should be more than enough anyways
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It's led, please; led, OK? Sobs at the state of the world
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A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor light source.
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"I am just sick of getting dumbass applicants."
Been there.
"I thought I’d raise the bar a little and only get smart college guys and the like."
Not done that (yet), but may give it a try!
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The URL Rewriter one isn't really a big deal. I would take that to mean someone has experience using mod-rewrite or a similar technology to make the webserver rewrite URLs in some complex fashion.
I would rather see something like "Use mod-rewrite to produce complex URL rewrite rules", but I certainly wouldn't assume they thought they manually altered url's in stream. It wouldn't weight much against them getting a phone interview depending on the rest of the CV... although I might bring it up in that interview
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One question people always ask is "What is most interesting project you have on your resume?"
I reply "All of them were interesting to someone or other. For me all of them held the same degree of interest only."
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A semiconductor-based source of illumination made of a soft grayish metal atomic no. 82? Sorry, you've confused me ...
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You're right, it's not allowed any more under ROHS regs.
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Please attempt some sensitivity. I had a son who was a semiconductor-based source of illumination made of a soft grayish metal atomic no. 82, and I assure you, it was no laughing matter.
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You have to work pretty hard at intentionally misunderstanding "written Javascript functions" and "URL rewriting" to mean "writing on paper" and "anything other than working on code that does URL rewriting".
Come on.
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I, I, I need to have a shower!! WASH THE DIRTY OFF!! WASH THE DIRTY OFF!!
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It's not the ONLY way to go, but it can be a REASONABLE solution. Not everything needs to be high tech and bleeding edge to be effective.
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I could see being tired of bad applicants in a recession, since they come out of the wood works. However, you do have to pay for what you ask.
CAPTCHA: pecus - Chickens eat corn with their pecus
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Actually, at the recruiting companies I've worked for:
You usually don't see the resume version that's sent to the company.
The recruiter that's talking to you isn't technology based, so the specified combination of "requirements" mentioned for the "assistant manager of a storage warehouse" position wouldn't trigger any red flags in their review of the job.
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Why is the middle story called "The URL rewriter"? Having that on your resume isn't that much of a WTF. The space in "Java Script" is. That space tells me the guy is confused about what Javascript is, and I wouldn't hire him for that reason. But experience with URL rewriting technology is perfectly fine. Great, even. (Though I would ask a question about it.)
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Knife, Fork and Spoon!
They fight crime!
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Well, the point is a tad on the pedantic side, so surely perfect for the assembled grizzly crew? 'URL Rewriting' as a modified verb, is surely only performed during the serving of web pages. Should the applicant write 'Worked on URL Rewriting code' or ven 'Implemented URL Rewriting' or somesuch this would be more accurate.
Sorry, I could never bring myself to agree with an Octonaut, even a C one.
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I was just making a joke about how agreeing with Nagesh about anything is fundamentally wrong, even when he's right.
Addendum (2012-01-24 11:52): Forgot to mention that I wouldn't disqualfy any resume based solely on the fact that, LOLOMG they didn't write it exactly how I would have written it!!!1@
The other errors in that list would have made the resume destined for the paper shredder anyway...
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Am I the only person who thought he was interviewing with Red Forman?
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Not for you, maybe, but for the rest of us it's hilarious.
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If this was mentioned as being the guy's father's experience, then it would be a perfectly valid form of non-traditional experience, exactly as discussed. But if you trust any headhunter to do anything ethical ever, well, I've got some swampland in Nebraska that may interest you...
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I like a good fork and spoon, but spoon first. After the fork, who wants the spoon?
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Hell, I've had to repeatedly correct at least two colleagues on the difference between Java and Javascript, but then it's a .NET shop so it's pretty rare that any of us need to work directly with either. The same mistake in a J2EE shop would be orders of magnitude WTFier.
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That second one has to be made up from various bits of my current employer:
Access customised for each user - one of the pre-merger firms used to do that; causing serious legacy issues now Poor condition HQ - one side had that; it got refitted for the merger though Odd hiring policies to try and stop people leaving - fairly poor basic salaries and HUGE, almost impossible to not get bonuses were de rigure for the side with the bad HQ.
Its been fixed for the most part, although those Access "applications" have a habit of biting us from time to time. One massive deployment has been upsized to SQL but is otherwise the same as it was in 1993...
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A knife and a fork, a bottle and a cork. That's the way you spell New York.
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The Storage Warehouse: "Let me whisper in your ear: Anyone who is smart enough to cross your bar is way too smart to work for you."
The Customizer: Clearly a business model based on banana republic military.
The URL Rewriter: To improve his résumé, he should work on moving up to URI's.
The Most Ethical: "Trust us, we are the most ethical!" said the used car salesman.
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OK - so you are brighter than the original author. I suppose that LEDs could have leaded leads.
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To be fair, dividing the word "Javascript" into two words is no evidence at all that the writer doesn't know the difference between Java and Javascript. If someone wrote on a resume that he was "skilled in database desine" I might give him a small minus for the mis-spelling, but I wouldn't conclude that he was lying about having such a skill.
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Well, okay, now that you put it that way, that may be what they meant. It still sounds funny as worded, though. Like if someone said they wanted to hire a psychiatric counselor "experienced in dying", it would be funny, even if we realized what they meant.
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The storage manager job requirements sound perfectly sensible to me. I'll bet there are lots of managers of U-Haul storage warehouses who wouldn't know how to install Apache on a Linux server if their lives depended on it.
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Seems to me, it happens even more often when there are Engineers working at the company. Even worse when its actually an engineering firm.
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On the serious side ... People regularly post on here, "The real WTF is PHP" or "The real WTF is VB". I hope they're joking. While languages have pros and cons and I certainly have my preferences, you can write real programs in VB and PHP is quite useful for some types of apps.
But "The real WTF is MS Access" ... that one leaves me hard-pressed to think of a counter-argument.
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That being said, I wouldn't rule someone out based solely on a typo or two, especially if they have some interesting experience.
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Okay, a meandering tangent, but ... The "we are the most ethical" remainds me of a news story I saw recently.
They interviewed a policeman who said he received a routine call that someone at a motel was playing excessively loud music in the middle of the night and generally being disruptive. So the policeman went to the motel room and knocked on the door. A man opened the door, saw the policeman, and immediately said, "I swear, she said she was over 18!" The policeman then commented to the reporter, "When this is the first thing a person says, you know that the rest of the conversation is not going to go well."
When someone finds it necessary to repeatedly assure me how honest they are, when I have not questioned their honesty at all, well, it just makes me a little nervous.