{"id":198,"date":"2011-02-09T23:50:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T23:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelokarimia.com\/blog\/?p=198"},"modified":"2025-03-15T15:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T15:02:21","slug":"amusing-recruiter-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelokarimia.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/09\/amusing-recruiter-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Amusing recruiter email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This gem arrived on my inbox recently, despite numerous my requests to remove me from their jobs mail out:<br \/>\n> Dear Michael<br \/>\n><br \/>\n> Based on the information we hold on our database we believe the position outlined below may be of interest to you.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n> POSITION DESCRIPTION:<br \/>\n><br \/>\n> Our client is a global, top 10, digital [I edited this bit out, blah, blah blah&#8230;.]<br \/>\n><br \/>\n> Let me outline their ideal candidate.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n> You are a geek with a compassionate heart: you just want to help! So what if you are misunderstood, sometimes, aren&#8217;t we all? Are you a techie working on half a can of jolt with frayed nerves and lovable, yet irritating character flaws, annoying those around you and, at times, causing you heartburn &#8211; it&#8217;s hard being me &#8211; screams your ulcer. You are bright, quirky and have a well organized cosmetics shelf of grooming products. Sometimes you read science fiction, dabble with the occult and, don&#8217;t forget, know a little about martial arts. You love the internet, and in turn, it loves you. Your blog site is never read, but that doesn&#8217;t matter, you hammer out a few thousand words a day, regardless, of the pain you are suffering because your hamster has gone off its food. Am I getting through to you? Your hairstyle is dated, yet cool, your dress sense is so wrong, but so right. We need you, and you need us&#8230;. just a little, but still \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 enough it hurts &#8230;hello &#8230; is it you I&#8217;m looking for?<br \/>\n><br \/>\n> Now for the usual required skills blurb: You should have commercial experience with: .NET, ASP.NET [blah, blah etc&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>top marks for trying though I think the recruiter&#8217;s talents are\u00c2\u00a0 wasted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This gem arrived on my inbox recently, despite numerous my requests to remove me from their jobs mail out: > Dear Michael > > Based on the information we hold on our database we believe the position outlined below may be of interest to you. > > POSITION DESCRIPTION: > > Our client is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelokarimia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelokarimia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelokarimia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelokarimia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelokarimia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelokarimia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelokarimia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelokarimia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelokarimia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelokarimia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}