Over the past few weeks I’ve had the joy of dealing with many recruitment agents as I’ve been looking for a new contract. I won’t get into the choice of job at this stage, as that’s a whole new blog post right there. What I wanted to show was my frustration at quality of most of the job advertisements I see on the Internet.

To sum up:

• They generally have a lot of spelling and grammatical errors.
• They highlight the lack of technical knowledge that the recruitment agent actually has.
• They contain a badly formatted list of “skills”, which generally aren’t skills at all.
• They almost always have no indication of the salary/rate.

On top of this, you also get the posts that:

• List the details of a permanent job in an attempt to get contractors to apply for them.
• List the details of a job in a completely different location to the one that you want in the hope that when you apply they can convince you to relocate.

IMHO, this kind of behaviour is taking the piss. It’s no wonder that recruitment agents have such a bad reputation.

As a final note, I recommend having a read of this marvellous article - those of you who have dealt with recruiters will no doubt enjoy it.