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Subject:Re: interview and ethics From:"Chuck Martin" <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com> To:techwr-l Date:Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:46:24 -0700
"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info> wrote in message news:210620 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
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> Something comes to mind now about an experience I had recently. The
recruiter
> and I had been talking about a job that was available and in response to
his
> description of it, I said something about my not being strong in that
area.
> What was unleashed on me is something that I wish now I had been able to
blunt
> before I got caught up in it. The recruiter lambasted me for expressing to
him
> anything negative about my abilities and chastised me for having the
"wrong
> attitude." I laugh now, but at the time I tried to explain to him that
> ignoring areas in which my skills did not match the job requirements was a
> fool's errand, but he kept arguing and arguing and eventually I just ended
the
> conversation.
This is known as someone who's getting paid on commission in a tight market.
