atw: Re: WARNING: Recruiter advertisements are ONLY trawling for resumes for tender responses!
- From: SUNTER Bede <Bede.SUNTER@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:37:26 +1000
No, let's make sure it keeps going.
Like Christine says, get with the script. So, agencies are resume hunting ...
who cares? Just send it to them. Who knows when that bingo moment will occur
and you land the job?
The problem of agencies' mis-specifying roles and suddenly terminating
recruitment are a bit different -- this stuffs people around. But hey, these
are the seas we swim in. Do you think agents have better nothing to do with
their time than stuff tech writers around? Are recruitment agents sometimes out
of their depth? Yes! just get over it. They are being stuffed around themselves
by government departments and corporations who know they need something but
don't know what it is; are prone to sudden funding cuts, restructures by
stealth and general uncertainty.
Be part of the solution.
Bede
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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michelle Hallett
Sent: Tuesday, 14 August 2012 8:20 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: WARNING: Recruiter advertisements are ONLY trawling for
resumes for tender responses!
So it's everywhere. Let's just accept it. That'll make sure it stops
Michelle
From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Parker
Sent: Tuesday, 14 August 2012 6:35 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: WARNING: Recruiter advertisements are ONLY trawling for
resumes for tender responses!
Its everywhere. I was advised of a FIFO TW job at Cape Lambert (WA north
west). I applied and got no reply. Much later I was talking to another TW who
was bemoaning the way TWs are treated. She said she had taken a job at Cape
Lambert... turned out to be doing office cleaning mostly, with an occasional
document re-write.
Bill
On 14/08/2012, at 2:55 PM, Michelle Hallett wrote:
I support Warren. The sort of behaviour he describes sucks.
Michelle
From:
austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Warren Lewington
Sent: Tuesday, 14 August 2012 4:27 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: atw: WARNING: Recruiter advertisements are ONLY trawling for resumes
for tender responses!
Hi all.
A large number of the contract roles being posted at the moment are not
genuine. I have found this out after stupidly sending resumes off - and on one
occasion after specifically asking if the role has been funded and authorised.
To which question, the answer was "yes." Twice in the last 24 hours I have
later been called and told that the "role" I applied for is a tender response
and they (those placing the bid) want to use my resume as part of the bid.
Well. I think if all you want is a resume for the off chance you might win a
tender bid then you should damn well say it in the advertisements and more, you
should be paying for it. I spend a lot of time updating my resume, which
reflects the skills I have taken years of effort, energy, and graft to develop.
So for me, in this respect, the resume is a product or commodity of
considerable value, and should be treated as such.
SO YOU SHOULD BLOODY WELL PAY FOR IT. Especially if you win the bid, and don't
choose to use the people whose resumes you took and put into the bid - and I
know that happens - I have worked in a bidding department for John Holland...
To follow that up, I have today (15:50 actually) called the ACCC to ask about
the false advertising regulatory framework and have been told that (basically)
if there is no monetary exchange (commercial or otherwise) then the
advertisements and unethical behaviour such as we are seeing from the
recruiters is out of the ACCCs capability to act against. Well, I bet the
recruiters must know that already.
I think this sort of behaviour is beyond dishonest. It demonstrates to me the
lack of trust that recruiters and their cronies higher up the food chains have
rightfully earned. I also think that the recruiters on the list should be
ashamed of your own industry. You need to shape yourselves up. You cannot deny
or defend yourselves in the face of such miserable hyena like ethical behaviour.
If you are having trouble understanding honesty, ethics, and integrity; then
perhaps you should talk to a local minister, imam, priest or rabbi; they can
assist you with a moral compass. I can give you several names if you want them.
Unimpressed.
Warren Lewington...
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