I Hate SPAM

Now before you start echoing me sentiment, I’m not talking about email SPAM where some idiot is trying to flog you cheap Viagra that’s probably an asprin painted blue.

And I’m not on about that food that claims to be meat, despite all evidence to the contrary in terms of appearance, texture and taste.

No, this is a different sort of SPAM instigated by people who are either ignorant, lazy or arrogant.
I’m talking about job sites.
Not those “Earn £££ from home” ads. Most sensible people know to avoid them. It’s a different kind of SPAM at work here, and no less evil.

Far too often these days, my search for a job is side tracked by these gits.
I put in search terms: IT jobs in Scotland-Edinburgh, or UK-Lothian, or however the site divides up the country.

And what do I find?

Jobs in Liverpool. Jobs in Aberdeen. Jobs in Manchester. Jobs in fucking London!

Why do you think I put in Edinburgh, you idiots?!?

The people posting these job ads seem to just tick every location in the UK that’s allowed, as if this will somehow increase their pool of potential interviewees.

If I wanted a job in London, I’d search for a job in London.

And as if this wasn’t bad enough, they list information such as

Salary: £££ Excellent

If they’re advertising the job, why don’t they know what the salary range will be? They must have a maximum value available to them, and they should know what the minimum expected salary for this job should be.

How do they know what an excellent salary is? £16-18K in Edinburgh for a starter IT job is good. In London, it’s dreadful.

All it tells me, is that the person placing the ad doesn’t know how to advertise a vacancy, doesn’t know how to target the kind of potential employees they are after and doesn’t know how annoying their superfulous adverts are.

Let’s put it this way. Before the filtering system on a certain job site was placed, I once accidentally searched the entire UK for IT jobs with a certain keyword. It returned the same advert placed over and over by the same agency for a London based job. In fact, they took up the first three pages of results!

So in short: Boody Quit-it!