employers and Craigslist...

[mrlich]

Okay, so am I the only one who's noticed that there are a ridiculous amount of job offers on Craigslist which sound like they're written by 10-year-olds?

I grant that a number of them may be fakes by spammers. I grant that even more are pseudo fakes by people who are trying to sound more impressive than they actually are. However - some there just doesn't seem to be any logical reason for.

An example.

I mean - are they half of what they claim? If so, don't they think that someone who has the very skill set they claim they are looking for would be turned off by working with an employer who would let someone post such a poorly written ad?

If this is spam (I haven't visited the site, and don't plan to) what do they hope to accomplish? If they're offering a service or a product, by the time I get there I'll be so annoyed that I've been duped that I would never buy said product or service. Of course, I've always had that curiosity about spam.

The gods only know that I am not the most grammatically correct individual, and sometimes my spelling just flat out sucks. But you know what? I'm not the public face of our company as we hunt for new recruits.

Anyway, I suppose that's enough preaching for now. I'm off to hang with a pretty girl.

Comments

[mrknowitall.livejournal.com]

Without looking at it, I'd bet that it's an Amway-style pyramid scheme. Someone hopes to make some money from people paying some sort of application fee to get the job of luring more people in to paying application fees and so on.

[mrknowitall.livejournal.com]

Well, now that I've looked at it, it looks legit. Just somewhat ineptly done.

Smarter Agent is a real estate company that is using the GPS in most cell phones to assist in house hunting. It's one of those nifty tech ideas that will probably prove to be a lot less profitable in real life.

[mrlich.livejournal.com]

I would think that if they were the exception to the rule, but they would seem the reverse. It seems more common now to have a poorly written ad for employers than to have a well written post. That's really at the crux of what I'm saying. I don't know that there were any actual spelling or grammatical errors in this post, more that it just seemed really poorly written. Since I have been seeing a lot of that sort of thing, This particular post inspired my little rant.

[mrlich.livejournal.com]

Yeah - sounds 'interesting' but I don't know how useful it will be. I mean - how many folks are looking for houses in areas they don't know at all? And of those, how many don't want to bother learning the new area even though they will (presumably) be living there soon?

Of course, the tech toy whore in me says "ooooh... a use for your phone's gps abilities... yummm"