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Recruiters are the hyaenas
of the tech world. Veteran scavengers, they gladly consume the
carrion nobody else will touch. Consequently, they smell bad -- to
everyone but themselves. In the wild, real spotted hyaenas
occaisionally perform a Grimmsian
public service by reminding tourists to keep their hands and arms
out of the Dark Continent while the planet's in motion. The
recruiter's native habitat is the boiler room, where he hopes to snare
flies for lunch, or the direct numbers of Microsoft middle
management. That is, he makes his money by being a public nuisance.
My friend Niall recently posted a gag resume to an infamous Internet job board, claiming, among other things, that he
The first bite came within thirty minutes, from a headhunter claiming to work for Kleiner Perkins.
The prescience of Suck's motto as applied to technology is staggering. It's no wonder Jamie Zawinski hates phones so much; that ringing sound you hear is probably another recruiter.
Just like this one:
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Mr. Rob McMillin:
My name is Lawrence Hasten, President of Elite Channels. We are providers of innovative resource solutions in the technology sector. I have been retained by a pre-IPO entertainment company to conduct a quiet search. They seek a CTO to help lead them from popularity to dominance in the area of convergence. Please peruse the following information. The company is backed by Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures, Sony, etc. and is on track to be profitable in 2002. The CEO and President are both quality professionals with excellent backgrounds in entertainment and the Internet. This is an outstanding opportunity for a professional of your caliber to come in to this high profile position and lead the technical direction of this company to the forefront of convergence. The responsibilities will include high-level technical direction, leadership and total authority for the technical staff, and executive level relationship building. I have identified you as a highly qualified candidate for this role because of your experience with PriceGrabber.com Please contact me so I may provide you with more detail. Lawrence. . .
Lawrence Hasten President Elite Channels lhasten@elitechannels.com http://www.elitechannels.com (310) 286-7111 Main Phone (310) 286-7117 Fax |
Wow. So this nitwit can use a Perl script to send out huge volumes of e-mail and customize two whole lines. Maybe he'll strike gold. More likely, he'll find a turd and call it fertilizer. I mean, imagine the quality of response this guy gets from his spam. It's like saying you're in the bubblegum business by virtue of finding some on the sole of your shoe. Even his website eerily echoes Jamie Z's comments:
My background is in engineering and information systems including a bachelors from UC Berkeley and a masters from Michigan. I worked for several years at IBM as a systems engineer and for a small consulting firm as a software engineer."You were so good, they made you a recruiter." Doesn't that just say it all?
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