[gnhlug-jobs] [NH Jobs List] Job: Network/Database Administrator - Manchester

[Dan Jenkins]

Paul Lussier wrote:
> Travis Roy <travis at scootz.net> writes:
>> I was speaking of my experience of recruiters I've dealt with, both
>> looking for, and applying for jobs. They tend to have no idea what
>> they're doing and throw as many people at as many jobs as possible.
>> These people, in my opinion, are goofs. You talk to them about how
>> you're a Linux/Unix admin and after the 4th call about a MSCE job,
>> and after explaining AGAIN that you do not want a job that's mostly
>> MS, and that you don't have a MSCE your opinion of these people that
>> are suppose to be helping you goes down.
>>     
> Which is why most just don't deal with them :)
> There are some good ones out there, but very difficult to find, admittedly.
>   
My first experiences with recruiters were about 30 years ago, in both 
the employer and employee roles. We needed an "experienced electronics 
assembler." We got someone who had swept up in what she thought was an 
electronics factory and a rather puzzled bakery chef (admittedly, the 
top floor of our building did have a restaurant). I was writing 
accounting and database applications on the side; I was repeatedly 
offered graphical game development and device level assembly programming 
contracts. I changed my phone number to stop them calling. My low 
opinion of them has not improved since then. I've heard there are good 
ones; I never encountered one.


In regards to the Word document issue, you do what you need to do to get 
the job (or get the job done). Despite being considered a Linux zealot 
at my office, I feel I am moderately agnostic. If someone sends me a 
Word or Excel document, I open it in OpenOffice (which I prefer on its 
own merits). If they need a Word or Excel document, I save it from 
OpenOffice in those formats. The important thing is to communicate with 
them, not only evangelize - definitely not offend, which gains no 
converts. (Oblig story/ A client had a PowerPoint document they could 
not open in PowerPoint on other machines. I opened it in OpenOffice, 
resaved it as PowerPoint and then they could open it everywhere. /End 
Oblig Story)

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Dan Jenkins (dan at rastech.com)
Rastech Inc., Bedford, NH, USA --- 1-603-206-9951
*** Technical Support Excellence for over a Quarter Century