I had a recruiter say "XML and UML are basically the same, right?".
There's almost a dangerous level of knowledge among some recruiters where they think they know enough to do crap like this.
There's almost a dangerous level of knowledge among some recruiters where they think they know enough to do crap like this.
All those new terms like React, Vue, SaaS, Azure, AWS etc. They don't really know what they mean.
I was asked if I could code in Azure. This led to a weird conversation where I was trying to explain what Azure was, whilst he wouldn't listen to me and was adamant that it was a programming language.
I'm so lucky, I think I found the best recruiter in all Vancouver. He helped me get my ideal role and was generally kind and competent. Just to offset the horror stories.
“Sure, can I pay you in ATM?”
The position seemed right up my alley. The directions part explained he was the recruiter for this position, and to reach out on LinkedIn first. So, I did that. I guess it was a pre-screen to see if I read directions.
He accepted the request but didn't respond to my message for a few days. I'm really not good at self promotion, but I also really wanted to get his attention. I saw that he posted regularly to LinkedIn and also engaged with a lot of posts. So I posted a cool side project[0] to LinkedIn that I had recently done. I was feeling pretty exasperated, I think I wrote something like "if i will do this just for fun, imagine what I will do if you hire me." I don't necessarily recommend that exact approach, but he did notice it and that is what got the ball rolling. Thankfully he thought it was cool, because it is a little bit edgy. I was looking for a smaller company that valued a hacker mindset, so it was a bit of a filter as well I suppose.
We immediately hit it off. He seemed to understand what I was all about, which is cool. I'm an aspie and a lot of ppl just don't get me. He has over 20 years experience so he really knows his stuff and he was just nice and down to earth.
I got extra lucky because he was friends with the hiring manager for 20 years, they worked in the game industry together in the 90s.
I'm not capable of generating any takeaways currently, as I am real tired, so I will leave that as an exercise for the reader. Hopefully my response was vaguely coherent and at least tangentially related to your question. Sleep time!
Edit: Forgot link! [0] https://jeremypoole.ca/posts/evofinder/
Writes in resume: 10 years coding in API, expert level.
paraphrased from a rejection phone call - swap the acronym with the word "interface" if you want to get closer to the original
"5+ years experience in using Fastapi"
Sure!
But your comment is the pithiest most succinct one here. Throw away the OP's tweet and all these comments, especially mine, and just put your comment on a blank page and let's call it's the succintestist summary possible.
If I told you I once had a recruiter assume MVS and TSO were the same, you'd pretty much be able to guess my age from that.