Every time I have to dust off my résumé, fire
up the networking chat lines and calculate how much I need in salary (given the
difference in benefits), I just want to puke. Because at some point I’m going
to have to deal with recruiters.
Seriously—I’d rather face an auditor across a
grody IRS table than talk with another recruiter.
But hey—them’s the breaks, so at the Grace
Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing I did my best. “My best” included
putting my dusted-off résumé into the conference database (although that was
more so I could get invitations to company events, really) and stopping by booths to
chat with the mix of recruiters and worker bees who staffed them.
But that also triggered a raft of mostly
system-generated come-ons, like this one from ADP:
My employer uses ADP to manage time reporting,
benefits, payroll, etc., and it is an abomination to God and man. ADP is what you
get when you have convinced yourself that you have no competition, so you can
make user experience from hell and slow-moving organizations will go on paying
you for it.
I’m betting their “talent acquisition team”
used their software to send out this post-conference enticement for which they
could not even fill in the GHC name:
ADP could not innovate its way out of a paper
bag, and they're kind of pants at proofreading their emails, too.
I have so much more of this to endure.
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