Tag: jobsearch

RSS Job Search

I was having a hard time finding the right job here in Houston. Days would go by without talking to a single recruiter. But then I started using Google Reader to subscribe to custom-made job search feeds for craigslist, and for oodle.com (which already aggregates feeds from 1000s of other classified ad websites).

Soon I found myself flying all over the country interviewing for jobs. The employers always pay for the flights, hotels, rental cars, etc. My job hunt became like an exciting vacation! I’ve been to New York twice, Milwaukee, Austin, Los Angeles, and Miami. I just accepted an offer in Manhattan with a very competitive salary offer. Google Reader saved me a huge amount of time and effort with the job hunt. Thanks guys!

this should help with the job search 🙂

Recruiter fails

The responses are my personal impressions, communicated to my Microsoft recruiter in the context of a private 1:1 conversation. A few days after I sent my response to the recruiter, I saw an anonymized version floating around and being discussed inside Microsoft. I hadn’t realized at the time that I wrote it that it would be distributed widely within Microsoft so that was a bit of a shock.

sour grapes shared with recruiter -> pwnage
2013-11-18: an acquaintance got the following recruiter spam. with skills like that, no wonder most people can be replaced with a markov chain.

How are you doing today!! Here’s the Contractual Direct Client Requirement for you. Hope you’ll go through this and revert back to me! Looking forward.. It would be very great help for me to fill this position by referring your friends and colleagues who might be interested on this opportunity.

Keep your eyes open for a special blessing from God today