The recent posts by Joel Spolsky on recruiters (you can start here and work backwards) are spot on. Recruiters seem to not only never tell you the name of the company they’re hiring for until you’ve totally confirmed that you will apply and they have to tell you the company name because you need to actuall...

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It’s Fresher’s Week at the University of Bath, and the place is filled with bright and eager young things walking around whilst members of various clubs and organisations try and recruit them with ever more exciting...

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Several months ago I made a post titled “Request for ID – scam?”, and then followed-up when I discovered it wasn’t. I’ve just had a nice phone call from the legal people at Computer People who discovered my post via a search ...

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It turns out that this was a legitimate request. Read this post for more details. Here’s an email I just got, allegedly from a recruitment agency Dear Ph...

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