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How crazy IS the job hunting arena today? I'll tell ya....
This is how crazy it is.
3 weeks ago an ad appeared in our local paper's help wanted section.
It was an ad for an admin slot. Pay was great -- 60K a year, benefits were excellent (full ride on everything, including health insurance) and it was close to home.
I looked at the company's website and everything looked great.
The ad also stated "must know steno and have excellent command of English" and it gave the email address to forward your resume.
I sent my resume. I do not know steno, but I do know speedwriting
Next day I got a call from the company president. From his home.
He asked me if I knew steno. I said no; I had speedwriting.
Pause and then "I rejected somebody because of that. How is your English?"
We discussed that for maybe 10 seconds and then he said, " The secretary who is here now I am going to let go. I am tired of editing all of her English and this is why I need steno.
"If I don't get anybody who has steno, I will call you back, either later tonight or tomorrow." He said goodbye and hung up.
The company ran the ad every day for 14 days. Yep, the ad ran for a full 2 weeks straight. I don't know if he actually managed to find somebody with steno, or if he gave up or what --- but the ad vanished and wasn't seen again.
And the ad was also billed as a "secretary" job. You can see that whoever it is who calls an admin a secretary is an older peson.
The president of that company is of advanced age; I am guessing he is well into his 80s. He also did not sound physically well --- from the sounds of it he has an advanced respiratory problem and he also said he was visually impaired.
I still do not understand why he "needs" steno. Nobody uses steno anymore --- high schools stopped teaching it in about 1980 since everybody at that time was college bound and nobody was going to be working in an office environment when graduation happened. They still sell dictaphones and every exec I've worked for either let you DIY when it came to correspondence or permitted speedwriting. Usually it's faster if you key it in directly as somebody is talking.
Very very strange. I hated to see a 60 grand a year job go sailing into the sunset but when you are up against a too-old and obstinate old fool who is bendable as lead, it's a lose lose proposition.
He said his current secretary "asked for a second chance." Said he was tired of editing her English? Then how well did he even choose his admin??? Guys like these shouldn't be in charge of a pet rock, let alone a company.
And if he wants a "secretary" I can imagine the profound nonprogressiveness of the entire company.
The ad vanished?
Maybe he did, too -- the mothership came for him and he got in and left.:)
Weird, I tell ya. Weird.
A friend swears that this was all some sort of scam and somebody was collecting names and addreesses. I can't see how a company can run a job ad every day for 14 days. It makes no sense at all.