I Have A Mysterious Fifth Sense

re: I Have A Mysterious Fifth Sense

Cosmin Banu — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:42:13 GMT

Mysterious fifth sense... don't you mean sixth sense?

Psychic Debugging, Part Two

Fabulous Adventures In Coding — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:41:49 GMT

A number of readers have the mysterious fifth sense which gives them the ability to deduce that the GetBars

re: I Have A Mysterious Fifth Sense

Peter Torr — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:33:00 GMT

I have a friend (who doesn't currently work at Microsoft) but was looking for a job, so I sent them her number.

Was that a good idea, or not? If they get a job out of it, then they're happy... but then maybe it's kind of like replying to spam -- you encourage the recruiters to cold-call the next time because they were successful the last time.

Oh well.

Recruiting Cold Calls

Software Test Engineering @ Microsoft — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:28:00 GMT

re: I Have A Mysterious Fifth Sense

Alex Angelopoulos — Sat, 28 Aug 2004 08:36:00 GMT

My favorite response to anyone trying to sell me something over the telephone:
"I'm sorry, my parents aren't here right now."
Which is irrelevant, but the conversation ends fast and I don't need to lie.
If my parents ARE here, of course, I just say that they're not home right now.
FYI, Barbara, I'm NOT a C++ developer, so don't get any ideas.

re: I Have A Mysterious Fifth Sense

Ex-Recruiter — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:23:00 GMT

Actually before I 'saw the light' and started life as a developer many a moon ago I was a technical recruiter. Sadly I started like Barbara and partway into my recruiting career turned from my cold-calling ways and actually called 'references'.....you know, you put your business card in a bowl at the resturant for a free lunch...it's open territory.

re: I Have A Mysterious Fifth Sense

Saurabh Jain — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 06:18:00 GMT

I believe she is digging through Microsft bloggers (or may be the biographies). This is no surprise as according to our Moon Gals (Joe and Gretchen), these resources are recruiters gold mine.

Now, I wonder which blogger hasn't received a phone.

re: I Have A Mysterious Fifth Sense

Jeremy Rule — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 04:10:00 GMT

She called me too. "Hi Barbara" if you're reading this.

Journal of an Open Sourcee » Window To A Recruiter’s World

TrackBack — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 07:45:00 GMT

Journal of an Open Sourcee » Window To A Recruiter’s World

Wow...she's crazy

Kevin — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 03:35:00 GMT

She's called my three times. She said she gets 25% of the first years salary for people she hires. I told her in no uncertain terms that I wasn't interested the first time.

She's called back twice since.