Showing posts with label recruitment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recruitment. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Recruiter Boo Boos

Found in a job advertisement:

** Free Parking **
** A company that Neuters creativity & Innovation **


This ad sports several typos but I'm a little concerned that it offers "free parking" as a perk. I suppose that could be useful if the office was located in the CBD where parking rates average $18/day, although not so in this case. And it's all very well for a company to nurture creativity and innovation...but neuter??? Well that's certainly a first. Maybe they don't want the creative and innovative breeding like wild rabbits.

Monday, January 7, 2008

More Skills in Leadership and Communication Please!

Found in a job advertisement:

At least 6 months experience in Communication skills (Verbal and written)
At least 6 months experience in Leadership skills

I was a little puzzled by this. What did the recruiter mean by "leadership skills"? How do you get experience for such skills? Isn't the ability to communicate something one improves continually by using on any job? This job isn't an internship nor a graduate/entry level job so it is odd that the recruiter has thrown that in.

Another one read:

* PDF development

This is also another puzzling one since this position is 1) in marketing 2) not with Adobe. So what exactly are we supposed to develop, again?