More career advancement

Oh, looky here—another great opportunity for me from one of the many contract vendors without whom tech giants like Microsoft, Cisco, Adobe, Symantec and Google would have to hire and adequately compensate the people whose labor earns them their amazing profits.

There are several things I find interesting about this particular come-on.

First of all—yes, of course I’m going to jump at something that pays two whole dollars above minimum wage, especially for a client that is clearly so cash-strapped.

Okay, I’m pretty sure Accenture is not the actual client. I don’t know where Ashutosh, the recruiter, got that company name, but I’m pretty sure (from a bit of, well, Googling) that the job is at Google, another corporation that really does need to cut costs everyplace it can.

I especially like that they want this person to “master policy knowledge” so s/he can “perform a wide variety of application policy reviews” and “take action on violating apps”. For $17 per hour.

And I wonder where they got the requirement that there be no bad attitudes? I mean, how many people have been run through this job and, after seeing what was actually expected, told them to stuff it? At this end of the pay scale, you tend not to get folks who have a long-term interest.

Then there’s the recruiter. He lists a New Jersey phone number, but as is usual with Collabera and its competitors, when you look up the individual, he’s actually in India.

They use VoIP phones to give the appearance of being in the US. Because they don’t even want to pay the low end of US recruiter salaries when they can get the work done for 80% less in India.

Finally, old Ashutosh must be having a hard time filling the role, for some reason. I got a follow-up reminder about it yesterday.