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In article <563innF27dju8U1@mid.individual.net>,
Pete Dashwood <dashwood@removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote:
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>That matches my experience exactly.

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>How to resolve it?
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>Don't give pimps a job spec loaded with acronyms. Tell them you want people
>with Database experience or COBOL experience or application experience or
>whatever skills are going to be valuable on this particular project. Don't
>circulate the requirement to every cock-a-meemie cowboy agency; develop a
>working relationship with three or four who are reputable, don't take more
>than 12% off the clients, and are likely to be around for a while. Ensure
>they are on the preferred supplier list for the Company, and make sure they
>get enough placements to keep them interested.

Ahhhhh, a *fine* managerial 'all ya gotta do is' to a situation which is
found in innumerable businesses across a couple of continents.  Mr
Dashwood, what you posit above seems to ask that folks actually know how
to, want to and are allowed to Do Their Jobs; this positing would appear
to violate Rule Number Zero, 'Nobody Wants To Do Any Work'.

Now, about that cat that needs belling...

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>On the last project I managed in Auckland I would have been very happy to
>have people with in depth "solution" experience.

I don't understand, Mr Dashwood... you were responsible for the project,
how is it that you skipped over those 'people with in depth 'solution'
experience?

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>From the contractor side, your life is in their hands. If you don't get an
>interview you can't get a job, and you won't get an interview unless you
>have the right acronyms on your CV. It is frightening.

After having been a consultant/contractor/hired gun for a few decades now,
Mr Dashwood, I would say that it is De Rerum Natura for the business
world; if 'the way things are' is frightening then gravity should be
*most* fearsome... it makes things fall down, y'know?

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>Fortunately, the Internet is changing it and more and more companies are
>recruiting directly from Job Placement websites.

Mr Dashwood, I do not know if this is the case... but if it is it might be
interesting to see how much of this 'recruiting directly from Job
Placement websites' is fitted with a front-end that first and foremost...

... scans the resumes that have been marked 'of interest' for the right
acronyms.

DD