Friends,
As many of you will know, Lehan and more recently, Emmjay and FM have done it tough in the ongoing search for work. We’ve encountered some real acts of bastardry – with job applications being rejected by some dopey automated scanning software that just doesn’t work – how about getting a rejection email before you’ve finished submitting the application ?
We’ve also encountered recruitment companies who advertise jobs that are strangely already filled – when they’ve only been open for minutes – just to collect a bunch of CVs for later on. These people are the scum of the earth for falsely raising unemployed or under-employed people’s hopes.
I created a petition: Bill Shorten – Australian Minister for Employment & Workplace Relations: Ban online advertising of non-existent jobs & automatic resume scanning software, because I care deeply about this very important issue.
I’m trying to collect as many signatures as possible, and I could really use your help.
To read more about what I’m trying to do and to sign my petition, click here:
http://www.change.org/petitions/bill-shorten-australian-minister-for-employment-workplace-relations-ban-online-advertising-non-existent-jobs-automativ-resume-scan-software?share_id=vZQvcIZMir
Or you can Email Bill directly at Bill.Shorten.MP@aph.gov.au
It’ll just take a minute!
Once you’re done, please ask your friends to sign the petition as well. Grassroots movements succeed because people like you are willing to spread the word!
Therese
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
This sort of ‘e-recruitment’ is everywhere, even in health. There’s a new system at work. Have to log on to the Area Health Service website, find the job, fill in application, upload CV, etc. All sounds great, as long as you have access to a computer…as long as system doesn’t crash mid upload…as long as there is no electronic perfidy during the process. IT’s resonse to crashes, missed uploads, etc. “The system does that!”
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What do they do with the CVs they collect, Em?
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They try to flog them to other employers and make money doing that. FM responded to an exec assistant ad in a very interesting organisation, went to the interview with a recruiter and was recommended for a position of project assistant (translation – everyone’s dog’s body) in a completely different organisation, went to their interview and was told she was overqualified.
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I hate to break it to FM like this Therese, but ‘overqualifed’ is code for ‘too old’… I’ve been a ‘project assistant’ myself… you’re quite right about what that’s code for!
I signed the petition as soon as I saw this post.
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Thanks, Asty. Pass it on.
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Errrr… better not mention it was me ‘oo said it, okay?
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Scams are everywhere. I’ll spare you the tedium of my mobile phone tribulations but I finally decide to have two. One for incoming calls because it has the number that we are known by. This is the phone that I refuse to pay the bills for. The other is a Telstra pre-paid with a new number. I joined the plan at 15c per minute calls. After a week I was urged by Telstra texts to use ‘message bank’. This is a way of people able to leave a voice message which one can retrieve by phoning a number. I kept thinking why are my pre-paids so quickly used up. It turns out that the retrieval of voice messages cost a lot more that the 15c per minute. More like $ 1.- per message.
To uncouple this ‘message bank’ service is not so easy. I phoned up Telstra and through a girl who sounded far away, possibly from Manilla, I managed to get rid of this service, finally.
I see young un-employed kids babbling away on their mobiles for hours, where oh where does the money come from paying for all that?
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I’ve just been stung by a telemarketing scam myself, Gerard: If anyone ever rings you up telling you that your pc has a virus, or some other infection, or that you need to renew a ‘CLSID’ registration, either hang up on them straight away, or else, waste as much of their time as you have time for, then tell them that you’re on a government ‘do not call’ list, that you’re aware of the CLSID scam and that they are currently under investigation and are soon likely to pay dearly for being such utter, utter b@st@rds!
On the upside, they ‘outclevered’ themselves by coming back for a second bite at the cherry… and almost had me believing they were sincere by telling me that the people who I’d spoken to earlier were a telemarketing company and that he, ‘Stanley Rogers’ was truly from the service department at Windows, or microsoft, or wherever… In his attempt to gain my trust he told me that I have 90 days to change my mind about the payment and ask my credit card company to attempt recovery (that’s the upside, really!) and this in fact turned out to be very much the case. Perhaps he was thinking I wouldn’t bother, but I did, and discovered that these scam artists onsell your details to other scam artists… and that informing on the previous scam artist was also a known strategy to the credit card companies…
Be careful, my dear piglets! It’s a jungle out there! And even in here!
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I get these calls a lot. I tell them to fuck off.
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I tell them that I’ll go and see if Mr M is about, and leave them hanging on the phone until I remember to hang up, often an hour later. In the old days this used to fuck up their connection, but it probably isn’t the case with modern technology.
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Both worthy and well-deserved responses… but still be very careful though, they’re bloody sneaky and sometimes can even manage to come across as ‘nice guys’… I thought I knew enough, but still got taken…
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Junior the computer student, tells them we don’t have any computers and then hangs up. I just hang up or start getting hysterical because its a do not call number and I sue them for their house, listening to them slipping in their own shit is enjoyable.
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When I get someone trying to sell me something, I say I’ll get my dad and pass the phone to Gez, he then says: I don’t want to make any more money, I have more than I need…thank you and puts the phone down.
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done
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