Why online job search engine suck
I got the following Email this afternoon from a Lisa Wiltshire at Bestjobsite07:
Dear Robert,
Based on your background and experience, we believe that you may be interested in one or more positions recently posted by our corporate clients. Please take a look at these recently posted opportunities. You can view the jobs in detail and submit your resume by clicking the links below. Our client is currently hiring for several positions across the country.
Best Regards,
Lisa Wiltshire
I posted my C.V. on a few job-search engines last summer and aside from an offer to interview for a position selling insurance door to door, I got nothing at all of value from these postings.
I forgot to take my C.V. down, so every few months I get an Email like this. Today I decided to send back this answer:
Dear Lisa;
Why do you think that this job would interest me? I offer the following for your consideration:
a) The job demands a high-school education - I have an MBA
b) The job is in a call center (I am clever and know that the word 'consultant' in most online job-postings means 'person who is good at making me coffee and taking dictation') - my online posting says that I am looking for a job in environmental consulting
c) The job is in Moncton - I live in Montreal
d) The job offers $10.77 per hour. How many people with two university degrees do you know who make $10.77 an hour?
Based on this information, I fail to see why my name came up on you search for potential candidate for this job, and still less why you sent me an Email saying that it might interest me.
If this is how your employer tells you to go about finding candidates for job postings, I would suggest that you yourself apply for this job and hope to god that you get it, because it would appear to me that your company is about to go bankrupt.
Yours Sincerely
Robert Cole