Hello! It’s #vsrativakansii again. A new selection of trashy job offers as usual on Friday’s broadcast. Today’s episode features another Russian holiday, penny rewards, and the requirement not to be an idiot and an offer for a test week.
Hello! It’s #vsrativakansii again. A new selection of trashy job offers as usual on Friday’s broadcast. Today’s episode features another Russian holiday, penny rewards, and the requirement not to be an idiot and an offer for a test week.
The Ukrainian labor market continues to demand good specialists at a beginner’s price. «The main thing is potential,» commented Andriy Shkrebtiy, a Backend Engineer with over five years of experience, on this vacancy.
Senior Software QA Engineer Anastasia Dyka shared a screenshot of a job posting from Threads, where the candidate is offered a test week. They also ask for the results of a personality test, and the hiring funnel consists of as many as 11 steps.
As we know, employers are not allowed to specify age or age ranges in job advertisements. However, you can find out the age of candidates through a questionnaire. Project/Delivery/Program Manager Vladislav Kontdratyuk noticed such an interesting vacancy with an age requirement and asks: «Is this a cliche, or just new market realities?»
2D Game Artist Alyona Yanushkevych said that the market still sometimes asks candidates to communicate in Russian. «A situation I encountered while looking for a job. This company posted its vacancies on work.ua. The company name is GoGame. If a company hires people in Ukraine through Work.ua, but its recruiter does not speak Ukrainian and asks candidates to switch to Russian, for me this is a sufficient reason not to continue communicating. I am sharing my own experience so that other candidates know what to expect,» she wrote and added a screenshot of the correspondence.
Project Manager Elizaveta Verzilova shared a vacancy for a June, which according to the description exactly matches the middle position.
« I just looked at the vacancies for Junior PM and I have something to say. For some reason, sociability, understanding of the basics of PM, knowledge of several popular tools, willingness to work in an office are the main requirements in European companies. But we also have another situation: the screenshot shows a description for the position of a junior in a Ukrainian company. I understand that the market is difficult now. Crisis, war, high competition, no money. But don’t we sometimes overestimate the bar for entry-level positions? Like. The very idea of hiring juniors is usually to ensure that a person has a solid base, potential for learning, and development,» the specialist notes .
On Threads, a user named Valeria posted a vacancy with interesting, to put it mildly, requirements for candidates. «Finally! A normal vacancy,» the author of the post ironically writes.
Andriy Shevchuk, Vice president of LLC RZ-FORM, shared his find on LinkedIn. «I just came across a Project Manager vacancy.
Mandatory requirements:
• experience from 3 years
• Agile/Scrum knowledge
• passing an astro forecast
• numerology test
Seriously?» he asked.
Andriy simulated the interview:
— Tell us about your last successful project.
— Well, Mercury was in retrograde, so we pushed all the deadlines back by two weeks. And according to numerology, I’m an 8 right now, so I’m in a phase of total control and micromanagement.
The recruiter nods:
— Perfect. And according to the matrix of fate, you were born under the star of «the one who knows how to find the culprits in overdue tasks.» Here we go.
Where are we going, colleagues?
Next time they will demand:
— horoscope of compatibility with Product Owner
— Tarot schedule for sprint
— and the obligatory aura photo on Monday morning.
Shit vacancies are now being discussed on Reddit.
Send vacancies that you think contain strange requirements for candidates to [email protected]
Website developer Oleksandr Rosyk found a vacancy that surprises freelancers and at the same time preaches the value of a specialist’s work.
«Attention to the screenshot — another hit from freelance called «European quality for 58 EUR.»
What do you need?
1. A stylish, trustworthy website.
2. Targeted at the EU audience.
3. To pass Google Ads moderation.
4. Without a cart, but with a sales page.
5. Page with medical articles.
6. With statistics tracking.
7. Arbitration structure.
And what about the money?
Ha, a whole 3,000 UAH or two trips to the ATB.
Well, what did I want from such an innovative topic in the field of biohacking and slowing down skin aging?
I don’t know what’s up with mTOR inhibitors, but such suggestions add wrinkles.
«Please, let’s value each other’s time and work. Because I will order cream for all sores for 40 UAH,» he wrote .
