Invisible wrote:
> And *all* of them targetting graduates with no experience. 

I saw a job advertised as needing people capable of designing and 
implementing robust, scalable systems capable of high-throughput transaction 
processing. Nobody with more than 2 years experience should apply.  WTF?

> I don't think any human being even looked at my CV. I think they did an 
> automated search of the electronic details I submitted and their 
> computer failed to find the magic keyword it was looking for, so they 
> sent me an autogenerated rejection email.

I now have a section at the bottom of my resume that lists all the keywords. 
Basically, a blob of buzzwords in a section marked "resume search criteria". 
I started that when I got rejected for a job that needed knowledge of ISO 
protocols and I had listed that I knew the full OSI suite.  (Kind of like 
getting rejected because you don't know TCP/IP, you only know Internet 
protocols.)

> I'm seriously considering either replying to their email or phoning them 
> to enquire why they're not interested. I though I'd actually be quite 
> useful to them, given what I know and what I'm capable (and motivated) 
> of learning.

I would phone them up and ask whether perhaps they've misconfigured their 
software to automatically send out rejection notices, and maybe that's why 
they're not getting any decent candidates. ;-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Why is there a chainsaw in DOOM?
   There aren't any trees on Mars.

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