It’s funny - when I was actively looking for a job, LinkedIn didn’t offer me much, but now that I have one, I get all kinds of calls and emails. Most are from recruiters and hiring managers with positions of wildly varying quality, but one this week really threw me. A contracting agency saw my title of “Innovative Technical Lead for Agile Scrum Software Development” and called not to hire me, but to see if he could get me to hire his company’s contractors! This was amusing for a few reasons:
- Someone didn’t doubt for a second that I actually had authority
- I’ve never been a position to hire anyone, temporary or permanent
- My current employer actually does use a lot of contractors, from a firm that has both onshore and offshore workforces
Maybe I should change my title to Director and see if I start getting calls for Vice President jobs!
February 23rd, 2008 at 10:07 pm
You have to let me know if this works.