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Yet Another “Unique” Job Opportunities for Those in the Market …

July 23rd, 2009

This one was posted to a Project Management group on linkedin.com; and while it may be legal to specify the candidate’s gender in India for this type of role, it definitely does not meet US employment law standards, or most people’s standards for good taste ;-):

Life Sciences Graduates Hyderabad India based (Ladies) please contact

A Pharmaceutical organization based in Hyderabad India requires lady customer relations coordinator.Life sceinces graduates preferably with MBA Marketing qualifications please contact.

Scapegoat Wanted, Part II

July 15th, 2009

Several weeks ago I blogged about some of the more… interesting… employment opportunities making the rounds within Seattle.

Not surprisingly, at least one of them is still open… or, should I say, RE-OPENED.

Two friends were contacted right around the time of my original post, but by two different agencies trying to staff that same job; one actually interviewed with the hiring manager for that role; their summary of that experience sparked my original post.

Today, another agency contacted my friend about that same job, which now has a few new requirements.

Enjoy:

A competing agency filled that contract senior project manager position on June 1st; their new employee hired for that role started June 29th.

Today the agency who filled that job called me today and asked me if I’d be willing to start a job, oh…tomorrow?

I asked what the positon was…they began to rattle off something all too familiar: Must be very proficiant with SharePoint, must know Excel and know how to use lookup formulas. They need someone immediately.

But – this time the project manager must be less of a leader and be more of a team player. And the contract was demoted to PM2 instead of PM3.

Hmm. After subtracting the federal holiday Friday, July 3 – that contract Senior PM survived either 11 or 12 days with that team. Based on the original job posting – I think they earned a gold medal for sticking it out that long.

I’m sure the next update will be equally entertaining, if not more so. The already late project is now three weeks further behind; it’s a safe bet that hiring manager and team are more pleasant and flexible than ever.

Stay tuned…. :)

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” – Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)

Strange But True Job Postings, Part II

July 8th, 2009

These are verbatim repostings of jobs postings from this week:

The first is compliments of either Ascentiant and/or Blackhawk Consulting Group (it’s impossible to tell exactly who is responsible for this one); pay special attention to the listed compensation, below:

Title:

Skills:

Date:

PROJECT MANAGER

.net, agile and strong PM skills

7-7-2009

Title: PROJECT MANAGER

Skills: .net, agile and strong PM skills

Date: 7-7-2009

Description:

LOCALS ONLY

PROJECT MANAGER

3+ MONTHS

SEATTLE, WA

RATE AS LOW AS POSSIBLE

Must have .net, agile and strong PM skills. A plus would be any social portal experience.

Must have VERY good communication skills.

Nasreen

and then there’s this one, which a friend received via email this week; and don’t laugh too hard at the last three bullets (or, wardrobe required but not included…. ;) )

I wanted to find out if you are looking for a new opportunity or maybe you might know someone that is looking?

I have a Contract Recruiting position open and the details are below. It most likely will go longer than 3 months, but it is set for 3 months right now.

Please take a look and let me know if you have any interest or might have someone to refer.

The client had openings today to interview, they are anxious to interview, hire, and get someone started right away.

3 Month Contract Recruiter – Downtown Seattle

Need two contract recruiters to augment staff – working in the Full Line Stores & Rack team – would like them to have hospitality or specialty coffee store experience.

Candidates need to be able to take direction; No one with an edge!

There would be full cycle recruiting responsibility, however we are going to have the two contractors engage less with the managers to avoid any disruption to the relationships being built right now in this new model we recently rolled out with the Restaurant and Specialty Coffee divisions.

They would be sourcing, interviewing, screening, and conducting the full life cycle of the recruiting process to hire management positions in this division all across the country. Having a strong recruiting acumen, preferably in a large corporate setting and hospitality/ restaurant industry would be preferred.

Minimum of 6-7 years experience.

They don’t want someone who has been mainly in a sourcing/coordination/administrative role.
They want to meet people who are capable of fitting into and providing mentorship to the current team to teach them about new recruiting processes in a professional, not-stepping-on-feet kind of way.
They are looking for someone who has worked in a non-technical, high-volume, large corporate environment, who is not too ‘agency’

Specific feedback about appearance/culture fit was that we should be looking for someone we can imagine selling us shoes in the store, very put together and polished
Shops at the store and wears clothes from the store
Very polished & professional

Wonder whether either of these stellar opportunities has gotten any takers yet…

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” - Abraham Lincoln, (attributed) (1809 – 1865)