[SLUG] Recruiters

[Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd-slug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

<rant mode = "11">

How much do people dislike recruiters?

I have just applied for a Unix developement job and supplied a
beautiful resume done in LaTeX and rendered to PDF. On submission
the recruiter asks for the ducument to be supplied in Word 
format.

One of the reasons I chose PDF was that in my last two dealings with 
recruiters, I submitted resumes which the recruiters edited. In both 
of these case, when I interviewed with the potential employer, I 
found that the recruiters edits had removed information which the 
employer was actually interested in seeing. The first case was with 
my current employer and the second was more recently.

Finally when you speak to these parasites, they have zero understanding
of the job I am applying for or my experience. Why do employers insist
on dealing with these parasites? Surely they could do better themselves.

</rant>

Erik
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