{"id":19386,"date":"2018-05-29T18:11:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T17:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardedgit.com\/?p=19386"},"modified":"2018-05-29T18:11:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T17:11:03","slug":"agency-provocateur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/?p=19386","title":{"rendered":"Agency Provocateur"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"image-fixer-wrapper\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\">You know how it works... you tell them your details, your qualifications, your employment record, your preferences for travel distance\/duration etc. and they use that info to match you to jobs which fit your criteria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">At least, that's how it's supposed to work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Yesterday saw another list arrive via email, and I'm told that I am a perfect match for everything on it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here's an extract:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/lista.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I like the notion that there are docks within 25 miles (or 30 minutes) of the (disputed) centre of England.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And it seems that there's not much to choose <em>pro rata<\/em> between being a Dog Walker and an Armed Security Guard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That said, I remember when the same preferences led to me being presented with details for what I thought would be the perfect job... quality management... satellite launch hardware systems... company car... travel expenses... Yep, it really was rocket-science!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That agency told me that I was a perfect match for the position.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Only after pressing the agency for more details was I was told that the job was a little further away than 25 miles (or 30 minutes).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It was in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how it works&#8230; you tell them your details, your qualifications, your employment record, your preferences for travel distance\/duration etc. and they use that info to match you to jobs which fit your criteria. At least, that&#8217;s how it&#8217;s supposed to work. Yesterday saw another list arrive via email, and I&#8217;m told that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,390],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rant-mode","category-lost-in-translation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/lista.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}