16th May 2007 - Situations Vacant Ads in the Newspaper.

I've started to play a new game with Saturdays Press newspaper and it was going to be the subject of my blog this week, but Karl du Fresne beat me to it. You can find his article at http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/4059724a17195.html. It sums up what I was thinking pretty well

We used to play "Buzzword bingo" at meetings when I was in the workforce, but the HR departments of Local Government/Hospitals/Govt Depts have taken things to new heights with the wording in their ads. What caught my eye was a local govt vacancy advertising for an IT person. Most of the content of the ad was unintelligable gibberish of the style mentioned by Karl (in fact he might have been looking at the same ad as me!), and nothing to do with running or programming computers. This led me to look for others and boy, before long you start to pick up a pattern. No doubt there's an HR school somewhere which churns out ladies who invariably go by the name of Tracy or the like to peddle this rubbish.

While we're on the subject of the media.... please point me to a radio station or newspaper which has a David Bain free zone. While I feel a little sympathy for the guy, we are all not so transfixed on him that we want to spend all our waking hours hearing from every nonentity, one time aquaintance, Lawyer, ex con, etc etc. The media get so self obsessed with a story at times, that they forget the rest of the world is moving on, or would like to if they could be allowed to.

Well that's off my chest for this week.