Today I received a programmer’s CV from a random recruiter…
Under experience, the most recent entry has a URL provided which points to a login form. From which I can tell nothing. So, that’s pointless/useless and illustrates nothing.
The second entry under experience points to a Zend framework based site – “I have designed and developed xxxxxxxx.co.uk. It is a website designed to enable small scale producers to sell directly to the public. The website uses ZF / MySQL / Javascript / jQuery / Ajax and CSS/CSS3”.
Well, he’s scored OK on buzzword bingo from the above.
*Clicks on link*.
*Oh, WTF?*
The site turns out to be :
- Frames based
- Contain no real content (clicking on links calls a ‘submitForm(“rah”)’ JS function…. )
- Be missing error handling (e.g. trying http://sillysite/rah/rah/rah/rah -> PHP exception trace)
- Clearly based on a quick start tutorial (view -> source etc) due to commented out code embedded within
- Contain horrible Javascript (worse than mine) (clearly this guy doesn’t actually know how to use jQuery)
From the domain name I can at least discover who the CV belongs to; that seems to be the only benefit of it. But now I know to avoid him.
Oh, and did I mention how under ‘Main Skills’ Dropbox is listed.
So, no, sorry… I don’t think I’ll consider hiring you for ~30k+.
So compared to what you currently pay a recruiting company, is there any premium you’d be willing to pay for decently vetted candidates?
I don’t pay a recruitment company.
The only time I used one in the past was for a short term contractor; who was pretty rubbish – the contractor placated a customer while we were bogged under with work.
I feel the CV I received (above) is just the “recruitment consultant” sending a CV which mentions PHP to all employers who perhaps have something to do with PHP. He certainly hadn’t vetted it.