Job Posting On Craigslist
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Just saw this on Craigslist: How To Apply Send an email message to the Craigslist anonymized address for this posting. The subject should read Re: Software Developer/Consulttant Candidate firstName lastName 2016 nsb Replaced firstName lastName with your name. In the body, write a concise statement describing your qualification for each item listed in the above section titled The candidate is expected to have exposure to the following. write a paragraph telling us a color that you are fond of and why. Do NOT attach anything to your email message. Do NOT include your resume anywhere in the email message. So you DON'T want my resume, but you DO want to know my favorite color???
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
At a guess, it's to prevent bots flooding them with applications, or at least weed them out. They will have a brief summary and your email, so if they think you have the qualifications, they can get back to you directly for the full resume. And the colour may serve to make them decide "we can work with this" or "what a tedious person to sit next to for eight hours a day".
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Just saw this on Craigslist: How To Apply Send an email message to the Craigslist anonymized address for this posting. The subject should read Re: Software Developer/Consulttant Candidate firstName lastName 2016 nsb Replaced firstName lastName with your name. In the body, write a concise statement describing your qualification for each item listed in the above section titled The candidate is expected to have exposure to the following. write a paragraph telling us a color that you are fond of and why. Do NOT attach anything to your email message. Do NOT include your resume anywhere in the email message. So you DON'T want my resume, but you DO want to know my favorite color???
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
They're probably trying to step the flow of garbage applications from completely unqualified pplicants who barely bothered to read the job posting. The part about the favourite colour seems dumb. but if the responses I've seen to job posting in the past are any indication, there will be a shockingly high intersection between the set of people who notice it, are amused by it, and comply with it and the set of people who end up being a good fit for the role. If I were in the job market, I'd take the colour paragraph requirement as a strong hint that at least somebody at the company has a sense of humour, and might therefore be someone I'd enjoy working with. :) I also like them asking applicants not to include a resume. Maybe my experience is atypical, but the vast majority of resumes I've had to review for software dev applicants have been horrible. And for the good applicants, the resume barely mattered because they used their cover letter to explain how their experience will enable them to solve my problems.
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Just saw this on Craigslist: How To Apply Send an email message to the Craigslist anonymized address for this posting. The subject should read Re: Software Developer/Consulttant Candidate firstName lastName 2016 nsb Replaced firstName lastName with your name. In the body, write a concise statement describing your qualification for each item listed in the above section titled The candidate is expected to have exposure to the following. write a paragraph telling us a color that you are fond of and why. Do NOT attach anything to your email message. Do NOT include your resume anywhere in the email message. So you DON'T want my resume, but you DO want to know my favorite color???
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
Mauve. It has the most RAM.
This space for rent
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Just saw this on Craigslist: How To Apply Send an email message to the Craigslist anonymized address for this posting. The subject should read Re: Software Developer/Consulttant Candidate firstName lastName 2016 nsb Replaced firstName lastName with your name. In the body, write a concise statement describing your qualification for each item listed in the above section titled The candidate is expected to have exposure to the following. write a paragraph telling us a color that you are fond of and why. Do NOT attach anything to your email message. Do NOT include your resume anywhere in the email message. So you DON'T want my resume, but you DO want to know my favorite color???
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
My favorite color is c#.
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Just saw this on Craigslist: How To Apply Send an email message to the Craigslist anonymized address for this posting. The subject should read Re: Software Developer/Consulttant Candidate firstName lastName 2016 nsb Replaced firstName lastName with your name. In the body, write a concise statement describing your qualification for each item listed in the above section titled The candidate is expected to have exposure to the following. write a paragraph telling us a color that you are fond of and why. Do NOT attach anything to your email message. Do NOT include your resume anywhere in the email message. So you DON'T want my resume, but you DO want to know my favorite color???
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
Actually, I like it. It'll cut out all the "Oh, I took a course in how to write the Perfect CV*, but didn't pay attention in any of my other classes", and the "I read a web-page about how rto BS in my CV" types, who spend a HUGE amount of time working on the CV, but essentially know only a tenth of what they claim. For the colour, let them know that you know that they're kidding. I'd go with something like "cerise with a strong hint of orange, but not too light, so more like a muddy brown, really". * I used "CV" because I couldn't be bothered to type out the accented characters for résumé"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Just saw this on Craigslist: How To Apply Send an email message to the Craigslist anonymized address for this posting. The subject should read Re: Software Developer/Consulttant Candidate firstName lastName 2016 nsb Replaced firstName lastName with your name. In the body, write a concise statement describing your qualification for each item listed in the above section titled The candidate is expected to have exposure to the following. write a paragraph telling us a color that you are fond of and why. Do NOT attach anything to your email message. Do NOT include your resume anywhere in the email message. So you DON'T want my resume, but you DO want to know my favorite color???
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
I'd tell them my favorite color is #00FFFFFF, then wait to see if anyone gets the joke. If they don't, I don't want to work there.
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Mauve. It has the most RAM.
This space for rent
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I'd tell them my favorite color is #00FFFFFF, then wait to see if anyone gets the joke. If they don't, I don't want to work there.
Transparent white, not bad. Personally, I would go with neon plaid or 'I find the light at 651.23 THz particularly striking' just to see the reaction.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); } Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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He's married, you can tell. Ask him about "taupe". Apparently, it's important...
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Just saw this on Craigslist: How To Apply Send an email message to the Craigslist anonymized address for this posting. The subject should read Re: Software Developer/Consulttant Candidate firstName lastName 2016 nsb Replaced firstName lastName with your name. In the body, write a concise statement describing your qualification for each item listed in the above section titled The candidate is expected to have exposure to the following. write a paragraph telling us a color that you are fond of and why. Do NOT attach anything to your email message. Do NOT include your resume anywhere in the email message. So you DON'T want my resume, but you DO want to know my favorite color???
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I'd tell them my favorite color is #00FFFFFF, then wait to see if anyone gets the joke. If they don't, I don't want to work there.
Or even #FC0FFF. Hell, new computers are 64bit, now, so why can't we have colour codes like #FUK0FF? I'd love to see what colour it is, and I'm pretty sure I'd use it a lot.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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They do! Well it's close, anyway: "W_hat are your favourite highest-contributing corporations?_"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Just saw this on Craigslist: How To Apply Send an email message to the Craigslist anonymized address for this posting. The subject should read Re: Software Developer/Consulttant Candidate firstName lastName 2016 nsb Replaced firstName lastName with your name. In the body, write a concise statement describing your qualification for each item listed in the above section titled The candidate is expected to have exposure to the following. write a paragraph telling us a color that you are fond of and why. Do NOT attach anything to your email message. Do NOT include your resume anywhere in the email message. So you DON'T want my resume, but you DO want to know my favorite color???
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
You're #F00001 :-D
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He's married, you can tell. Ask him about "taupe". Apparently, it's important...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Mauve. It has the most RAM.
This space for rent
Wow, so others remember this too! :)
Cheers, विक्रम "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:
