atw: Re: WARNING: Recruiter advertisements are ONLY trawling for resumes for tender responses!
- From: "Stephen Nason" <snason@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:24:45 +1000
A journalist makes up his lies
And takes you by the throat:
So stay at home and drink your beer
And let the neighbours vote.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), The Old Stone Cross.
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Trussler
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, 15 August 2012 3:10 PM
Subject: atw: Re: WARNING: Recruiter advertisements are ONLY trawling for
resumes for tender responses!
Warren,
Wow, that is certainly more than two cents worth!
A personal question - do you vote for politicians at elections?
Bob T
On 15 August 2012 15:02, Warren Lewington <wjlewington@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes, nice counter points Bede.
The recruitment agent from late yesterday has called me twice since, both
times to sincerely apologise. And my word yes, this episode has cost the
recruitment agency far more than it cost me. They now have to work damned hard
to restore trust, and faith in them to me, not to mention the costs of paying
the agent and adverts and so on. And, they certainly see my skills have value.
And that is nice to know. But I digress towards egomania…
This morning the lady conveyed apologies from her contact within the
bidding company. The person there too, had been misled.
There are two issues here.
One is doing your research. My major gripe is that with further digging on
the two occasions in the last few days, the true picture would have been very
clear. I don’t need to go there anymore.
The second goes back to honesty and ethical dealings in business. Sure,
there is the Trade Practices Act, where grey areas abound of course. Bede, you
are absolutely right, my resume as a commodity in that situation MIGHT get me
the work. Typically the bid companies never offer the job to you when they win
it – they don’t even call.
More than that though, it was the FACT that I was lied to about the
existent role as advertised. Someone knew they needed resume information.
Someone made the decision to say there was a legitimate role available,
somewhere in the feeding trough. Someone knew that they would get resumes worth
including in the bid by saying there was a job available – but they knew there
was not. That deception got them resumes.
Our society works because for centuries our ancestors built a cultural
system around morality and honesty. The justice system we have built our
society upon requires a commitment from everyone to maintain and live by the
standards of honesty and morality our ancestors fought and died for. The
Australian Constitution was written relying on the fact that our society
enshrined fundamental understandings of the Westminster, Judeo-Christian system
of morality and honesty. “Tell the truth” is one of them – even if it doesn’t
make you look all that good.
If we simply let people behave amorally (making decisions based on what is
right for them at the time) within the constructs we have been ancestrally
provided then we are going to erode all that we have been given, and others
have sacrificially defended. If you want to live in a community that says “Its
right if I think it is right and it benefits me to do it this way now;” then we
are going to have a big fail on our hands… By saying “it’s the way it is; just
swim with it” you are letting people get away with deceit and lying.
Where does it end? It ends with losing fundamental rights. Someone doing
something because it suits them at the time may not be illegal, but that does
not make it right according to fundamental tenets of honesty and integrity.
Solzhenitsyn said we must question everything those in authority do –
otherwise they will take our right to question away.
By highlighting the problems we can actually make an effort to prevent the
slide down a very slippery slope. It is up to us all to demand expected,
acceptable standards of honesty and integrity from everyone else in society.
United we stand, divided we fall. Do unto others as you would have them do unto
you. I don’t like being used by deception. Do any of you?
My further two cents worth.
Warren.
From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of SUNTER Bede
Sent: Wednesday, 15 August 2012 00:37
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: WARNING: Recruiter advertisements are ONLY trawling for
resumes for tender responses!
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] On Behalf Of Warren Lewington
Sent: Tuesday, 14 August 2012 4:27 PM
To: 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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