{"id":347,"date":"2009-02-11T13:51:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T12:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=347"},"modified":"2009-02-11T13:51:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T12:51:31","slug":"shaming-the-recruitment-agencies-lorien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/11\/shaming-the-recruitment-agencies-lorien\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaming the recruitment agencies &#8211; Lorien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(today Lorien joins previous awardee <a href=\"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/index.php\/2008\/11\/21\/shaming-the-recruitment-agencies-aardvark-swift\/\">Aardvark Swift<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an insidious new form of spam on LinkedIn: people posting job ads on the linkedin forums. This is particularly stupid because you lose all the benefits of LI&#8217;s built-in job search system.<\/p>\n<p>I saw a great one today from Lorien plc (clearly, not an agency you want to work with).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nForum: Video Game Industry Executives<br \/>\nDescription: &#8220;for Gaming Industry Sales, Marketing, PR &#038; Digital professionals&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Post:<\/p>\n<p>We are seeking experienced C++ Games Developers just like you for a permanent oppurtunity in Scotland. Send your CV now to Ahmid.Nawaz@Lorien.co.uk or call on 0131 718 6396\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, so a few tips for Ahmid:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Tip: Use a spell checker when spamming job adverts to unrelated groups.\n<li>Tip: Don&#8217;t spam unrelated groups\n<li>Tip: Don&#8217;t spam job adverts on a site that has a dedicated Jobs section\n<li>Tip: Fix your webserver so that when people go to <a href=\"http:\/\/lorien.co.uk\">http:\/\/lorien.co.uk<\/a> they don&#8217;t get a &#8220;site does not exist or is not working&#8221; error message\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(today Lorien joins previous awardee Aardvark Swift) There&#8217;s an insidious new form of spam on LinkedIn: people posting job ads on the linkedin forums. This is particularly stupid because you lose all the benefits of LI&#8217;s built-in job search system. I saw a great one today from Lorien plc (clearly, not an agency you want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}