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<p>I have a couple of job ads up on Craigslist for Web Developer, Web designer, QA Analyst, and Business Analyst.</p>
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<p>I am completely and totally astounded by some of the response.</p>
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<p>1) Why would a Web Designer not send a link to a portfolio?</p>
<p>2) Why would a QA Analyst have Grammatical errors in their CV?</p>
<p>3) Why would the Business Analyst have Grammatical errors and spelling mistakes in their CV?</p>
<p>4) Why would a web developer send me to a site with broken links?</p>
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<p>Ugh.</p>
<p>I think I found some good ones- I held interviews yesterday - although it was not without incident on my part.</p>
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<p>I brought in a lady with an lot of excellent experience as a programmer, and as i was talking to her- I realized just how little relevant experience she had as a web systems programmer and she was shifting uncomfortably as I was asking her technical questions about her coding until she finally asked "This is the QA job, right?"</p>
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<p>then I took a moment and realized with her experience she'd be the ultimate bug hunter- and the interview totally changed after that to being a stellar one for her.</p>
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<p>Whoops.</p>
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<p>I am completely and totally astounded by some of the response.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>1) Why would a Web Designer not send a link to a portfolio?</p>
<p>2) Why would a QA Analyst have Grammatical errors in their CV?</p>
<p>3) Why would the Business Analyst have Grammatical errors and spelling mistakes in their CV?</p>
<p>4) Why would a web developer send me to a site with broken links?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Ugh.</p>
<p>I think I found some good ones- I held interviews yesterday - although it was not without incident on my part.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I brought in a lady with an lot of excellent experience as a programmer, and as i was talking to her- I realized just how little relevant experience she had as a web systems programmer and she was shifting uncomfortably as I was asking her technical questions about her coding until she finally asked "This is the QA job, right?"</p>
<p> </p>
<p>then I took a moment and realized with her experience she'd be the ultimate bug hunter- and the interview totally changed after that to being a stellar one for her.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Whoops.</p>