Some job search test results for the year…
It seems cute and commemorative to preserve the test results from many of the whack-ass mechanized tests developers are sometimes required to take in order to engage with cattle-call-oriented recruiting companies.
There are people, friends/ex-coworkers/family (mostly connected to me on Facebook), who still are likely to assume that I’m unemployed—and this Blog skimmed over is not going to help that misconception. What is very comedic/tragic is to have a friend finally realize that I’ve been working for about six months only to become unemployed upon their realization.
Here’s my CSS test:
And, finally, my JavaScript test:
Now the organization(s) that “asked” me to waste hours of my time taking these tests have a great idea of who they are representing. It turns out that my current employment has nothing to do with taking these tests. Yeah, right. So it might be possible to say that this was a complete waste of my time. However:
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I did not think it was possible to write a serious CSS test until I found myself taken by surprise completing one.
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I have learned about the quality, patterns and practices of selected recruiting agencies in the Southern California area.
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In “defense” of the organizations that had me taking these tests, I am almost certain that at least one them was not a “real” IT recruiting outfit—one was more of general office staffing shop—that’s just how tough the job market has been and is like to continue to be.### Related Links
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“More IT means lower salaries for uneducated workers” and other Google Starred Items
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My remarks about “How to hire a programmer when you’re not a programmer”rasx()