Gotta love these agency headhunters.

[unixronin]

"I recently reviewed a copy of your resume on the internet, and feel your experience is relevant to one of our openings with a direct client."

Well, let's look at your requirements here.

AntHil Pro?  Never heard of it.

Oracle?  Nope, I don't do Oracle.

Java?  Nope.

.Net?  Nope.

Perl?  Yeah, I do Perl.

Builds and deployments?  Well, yes, I've done builds and testing.  Deployment, not so much.

SubVerison [sic] VSS?  Not so you'd notice.  Used it just enough to know it has some really ugly (as in, corrupt the entire repository) failure modes.

AccuRev?  Nope.

CruiseControl?  Nope.

Agile environments?  Nope.

So, running maybe about 1.5 for 10 here.  Tell me again exactly why my experience is "relevant" to your client?

Oh, right.  Your blind search threw up a hit on the word "Perl".  But you never actually read the resumé, did you...?

No, I didn't think so.

Comments

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

If they don't understand more than keywords, stay away from them. They will develop a reputation in the market that will poison anyone they represent. When I was a hiring manager, I would use any reasonable technique to reduce the 200 resumes that passed HR down to the 10 - 15 I wold interview. (I was generous with that much time.) Often, for me, a degree in CS was a disqualifier by itself. I was perverse. I had a great team.