Posted on 09/09/2011 8:05:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I don’t know. Maybe it is just saying something for the sake of saying something. We are governed, led and communicated with by imbecilic fanatics, both in office and in the Media!
Yeah, it is an old post, dating from 2007. But the only thing that's really changed is they are no longer embarrassed by it. ObaMao's blatant "immigrants first" politics have given this sordid practice a cachet of respectability.
My post #53 describes how Japan deals with it. It seems like a fairly sensible solution to me.
I got the Keyword Stuffing part down. It has to be within the first 500 words.
Thing is, it is all a query against the job description. Of course, the more keywords you have in there the better. However, and I think this is the original point, there are people that have 7,8,9 of the 10 keywords.
Companies are holding out for that resume with all 10. Then they complain.
it is EXTREMELY COMMON to find candidates with school training and but clearly no competence for the job.
“Companies are holding out for that resume with all 10. Then they complain.”
Unrealistic expectations on the part of HR is pretty common.
If you want to see something really funny, go peruse some IT job ads. It’s pretty common to see requirements for “5 years experience in X”, where X is some technology that has only existed for 2 years.
college financing needs serious gutting.
No student should have college loans and no job after five years. They should be dischargable in bankruptcy.
“If you want to see something really funny, go peruse some IT job ads. It’s pretty common to see requirements for “5 years experience in X”, where X is some technology that has only existed for 2 years”
I have seen a lot of that in IT. Makes me think that the hiring manager does not know what he is doing and could be diffficult to work with.
Our schools are a shambles.
The "job" is over. Companies really don't want to hire anyone on a permanent"basis if they can help it - particularly to perform a function like IT, which most executive management committees equate with janitorial or landscaping work: necessary, but a function they don't need to understand and which they don't consider essential to the bottom line.
But contract work is available, and if the unions didn't have the government by the short hairs there would be much, much more of it. Companies would gladly hire people short-term to fill all sorts of needs, they just don't want to be punished by union-inspired government regulations when the time comes to let those people go.
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