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Recruiters are terrible for actually knowing what skills a position they are looking to fill needs. HR people are even worse. The first thing I do is look over their site. If it's poorly done, I generally don't apply (if they can't manage to maintain their own stuff well, they aren't going to do a decent job with any product). Outside of that, I don't take anything personally until I talk to the actual hiring person, and if it turns out to be a job that doesn't fit what was described to me, I simply walk out, no harm no foul. There are too many people in play that have zero clue about the job for me to get upset at the people interviewing me.
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*shudder*. But @Stoner is on the money...
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what @Stoner said
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Don't be discouraged... I had been consulting in the past... I can narrate you many incidents (both on call and in person) with a recruiter where they didn't knew anything about the job and even behaved like I don't have the skills ... Most of them have a perception like java and JavaScript means the same thing...
I'm so close to giving up. Yesterday, I travelled 4 hours in one direction for a job interview for a graduate position as a web developer. As I arrived at the interview, I was welcomed by a senior dev and one of the HR people.
I sit down and they start explaining how everything will commence(standard procedure stuff) and afterwards hand me the technical test. At this time I am super calm cause I did my homework, checked out their products, their websites and knew right away what I was going to work on. As I turn the page, I see at the top with huge fucking capital letters "JAVA OOP test".
I take a minute and look back at them, like wtf is happening. Turns out that they are looking for a java dev. They picked me for the role because I had literally 1 fucking sentence in my CV and where I have said that I studied java in one semester of uni. FYI my entire portfolio, cv and cover letter are focused on JS, html, css both for client and server side.
As the fucking HR guy stood there and asked me "is there something wrong", I felt broken inside. For the first time in my fucking life I felt like I was done and couldn't continue anymore. I felt like this is some bitch-slap from karma about something but I still can't figure out what. I just walked out of there being unable to realize what happened.
I just feel like I should end my developer career before it has even started, just go do business analysis or something. Why the fuck would someone put a job description entirely talking about Angular, Less/SASS, bootstrap and jQuery and then say that is a Java dev OOP role. Who the fuck allows those people to take good salaries yet still deliver the up most shittiest quality service.
Before the interview, I checked out their websites which are simply horrendous with the comparability of a fucking baked potato. Idk really what to do, I don't mean to sound as a whiny little b.... but as I walked out of their office, I felt broken inside. Sorry for the long rant.
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