CS-SYD: Be careful recruiters, you're being selected too

As a fresh grad, Norfair / Syd gets the worst treatment from employers and recruiters. For example, hardly anyone would get away with making a senior hire fill in a hundred fields in an applicant management system -- recruiters are expected to perform that function.

It's the nastiest job search you'll ever have. With some luck, it'll never be like this again.

Important reminder that the USeng/BReng languages use "recruiter" slightly differently, and that in the UK "recruiter" means "independent recruitment agent middleman". This caused a nasty unnecessary argument last time the subject came up.

The other subject that often comes up when we discuss this is that there's no reliable way of assessing candidates that doesn't have very high rates of both false positive and false negative errors, so most employers tune all the way over to the negative. This includes building ridiculous hoops to jump through.

Salty.