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Discussion on: What's the best or worst recruitment line you have heard?

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ItsASine (Kayla)

For some reason, I only ever get messages about being a Java dev, but this one was my favorite:

Requirements for the role include;

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tools for version control of code: Git (pronounced ‘get’) and Bitbucket?
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And I got this email twice, months apart, same (internal) recruiter, both times with the note that it's pronounced get. It's not pronounced get.

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Shannon Crabill

Haha, was the ? really part of it?

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ItsASine (Kayla)

Yep! I assume she took notes from the conversation with the hiring manager and then just copy and pasted it for months to anyone on LinkedIn that vaguely fit.

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Shannon Crabill

I feel like most job descriptions are a Franken-copy-paste of previous descriptions, new notes, etc.

Technically speaking, I was hired in a previous role to do "HMTL", according to the official job posting. 💀