Recently I got burned by a job candidate, or more accurately by the unethical company that represented them. In this case it was a company that had 'doctored' up the person's resume so that they would appear to be a highly qualified test professional. The resume's front page in the Skills/Knowledge was loaded with the 'correct buzzwords' for the tools and technologies that caused it to land in my lap.
I work for a consulting firm and we do work across the U.S., and we try to 'contract' local people if needed when we cannot get an FTE consultant to the client. We are a small shop so this does happen often. Our internal recruiter contacted the person and setup a technical interview with me over the phone (we were not in the same state). When I spoke with this 'person' they were right on the money with knowledge and speaking ability, so they looked like a good candidate. I was ready to move forward, but wanted to check out a couple more candidates to cover my bases.
The next resume I got from our internal recruiter looked almost the same as the previous person I just spoke to. I did a side by side comparison and the first page had a knowledge section that was 95% the same between the two, there were only a few tweeks. I went back and talked with my recruiter to find out what was up. They replied it looked like the two candidates were probably from the same Contract Registry (do Corp. to Corp. contract) and that they had probably used a ringer for my phone interview.
I got fooled by a 'ringer' phone interviewing for a potential job candidate. So I called the 'person' I talked with about an hour later. Guess what, not the same person (voice, speaking skills or knowledge)! Their resume and the other one immediately went into the trash can! There are some places out there where they just doctor up the resume so they can get high on the hit list and then have a 'ringer' get the job for some dumb schmo! I had heard about this bait and switch crap, but never thought I would get caught by it. I still want to find the company that did this and expose their fracking asses for this B.S. !!!!
As you can see from the WebLog title I am a bit sarcastic and cynical about this thing we call Software Testing. Over my years of experience in Software Development and Testing I have seen some very very Dilbert things happen.
Hopefully this Blog will be a good place for you to learn from some of the things I have experienced and allow you to be more effective in your efforts in Software Testing.
• September 23, 2006 - Ethics in business, where did they go?
Recently I got burned by a job candidate, or more accurately by the unethical company that represented them. In this case it was a company that had 'doctored' up the person's resume so that they would appear to be a highly qualified test professional. The resume's front page in the Skills/Knowledge was loaded with the 'correct buzzwords' for the tools and technologies that caused it to land in my lap.
I work for a consulting firm and we do work across the U.S., and we try to 'contract' local people if needed when we cannot get an FTE consultant to the client. We are a small shop so this does happen often. Our internal recruiter contacted the person and setup a technical interview with me over the phone (we were not in the same state). When I spoke with this 'person' they were right on the money with knowledge and speaking ability, so they looked like a good candidate. I was ready to move forward, but wanted to check out a couple more candidates to cover my bases.
The next resume I got from our internal recruiter looked almost the same as the previous person I just spoke to. I did a side by side comparison and the first page had a knowledge section that was 95% the same between the two, there were only a few tweeks.
I went back and talked with my recruiter to find out what was up. They replied it looked like the two candidates were probably from the same Contract Registry (do Corp. to Corp. contract) and that they had probably used a ringer for my phone interview.
I got fooled by a 'ringer' phone interviewing for a potential job candidate. So I called the 'person' I talked with about an hour later. Guess what, not the same person (voice, speaking skills or knowledge)! Their resume and the other one immediately went into the trash can!
!!!!
There are some places out there where they just doctor up the resume so they can get high on the hit list and then have a 'ringer' get the job for some dumb schmo! I had heard about this bait and switch crap, but never thought I would get caught by it. I still want to find the company that did this and expose their fracking asses for this B.S.
Caveat emptor (buyer beware)