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Solaris/Linux admin needed-



On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 02:16:01PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On May 26, 2009, at 12:48 PM, Jerry Natowitz wrote:
> 
> > I've seen listings for this job for many weeks.  Is the client
> > exceptionally selective, or is this a Potemkin job listing?
> > ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village )
> 
> 
> My money is on "exceptionally selective".  I don't have experience  
> with the particular company (I can't identify it by the req) but I do  
> have experience with something quite similar.  If this place has the  
> same kind of sharp management as where I came from then they're  
> looking for someone with a specific collection of skills and are going  
> to carpet-bomb the job boards and anything else they can find to fill  
> it.

Plausible.

If only recruiters had more care for their own reputations, they wouldn't
participate in this sort of scheme.

And reputation definitely matters. I can tell you that of the various
techies at the Memorial Day picnic I went to, almost all had something
nasty to say about Remington.


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