bleh or why I hate job applications
Aug. 23rd, 2011 09:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seldearThe employers always want the sun, the moon, and the stars.
The job agents rarely have any idea of what the client is looking for and insist that they know best. (When the client has specified something where it doesn't matter which version, they'll insist that you don't have the specific version experience - like complaining someone doesn't have Word 2003 experience, where they have other version Word experience. Where the client has specified something that is clearly a hardline must-have, they'll insist that it's quite okay, I'm sure they don't really mean they want it.)
They always ask if I'm an Australian citizen. (Yes. It's on my freaking resume if you bothered to read it.)
They're all in places-that-are-not-Sydney right now. (I just got settled here after years of wandering all over the map. I was liking making friends here and putting down roots, instead of being stuck talking to friends overseas that I don't even get to talk to that much because they're online at their nights during the middle of my day, when I'm working.)
The job agents rarely have any idea of what the client is looking for and insist that they know best. (When the client has specified something where it doesn't matter which version, they'll insist that you don't have the specific version experience - like complaining someone doesn't have Word 2003 experience, where they have other version Word experience. Where the client has specified something that is clearly a hardline must-have, they'll insist that it's quite okay, I'm sure they don't really mean they want it.)
They always ask if I'm an Australian citizen. (Yes. It's on my freaking resume if you bothered to read it.)
They're all in places-that-are-not-Sydney right now. (I just got settled here after years of wandering all over the map. I was liking making friends here and putting down roots, instead of being stuck talking to friends overseas that I don't even get to talk to that much because they're online at their nights during the middle of my day, when I'm working.)
