Craigslist Job Post Rebuttal - Love It!

Like millions of others out there, I keep an eye on job postings in my industry that are posted on a daily basis to ultra-popular lifestyle index "Craigslist". For those who don't know Craigslist (which will be most people in Australia because I don't think it has really taken off down there), is a basically designed local classifieds and forums site for over 450 individual cities worldwide. Vancouver, Brisbane, London, Los Angeles, Toronto, Amsterdam, Dublin and many more all have their own Craigslist sites featuring community topics like "lost and found" and "events" forums, housing classifieds, a comprehensive and handy "for sale" section as well as personals and a comprehensive forum area covering a stack of topics. Here in Vancouver, if you are looking to get a new room mate, sell an old TV or computer, or even someone to go running with on a Saturday morning, the standard thing to do is, "post something on Craigslist" - it's a pretty common thing to hear coming out of people's mouths.

Also, in Vancouver at least, it seems that in the web design/IT industry, companies are now actively posting their job opportunities for free on Craigslist as well as on traditional paid services like "Monster" etc. This is the main reason I keep my eye on these very listings to see what's popping up each day, or each hour even. This brings me to the main point of this entry.

Amongst all of the decent postings, there's also a bunch of really crappy ones that generally tend to have titles like:

• IT Superstars Needed
• Web Designer Needed for Dead Easy Job
• Web Design Genius Required

Usually such postings end up advertising jobs that are either for shady start-up companies who expect the world and want to pay nothing for it.

For example, the latter in that list above was the heading for an ad posted yesterday which read:

Web Design Genius Required - Best Opportunity In Town

We are an emerging conglomerate of internet companies preparing to go public in the coming year and require a genius designer to manage the design of our various properties currently numbering 7 domains.

Genius means you must be fully-conversant in all design/tech languages, must understand the practical linkage between cool design and tech backbone and overall principles of marketing - and your work must blow the doors off anything else out there.

You must be able to create greatness but also follow instructions from the CEO who is one of the true marketing geniuses and a pioneer in the internet field.

This is the perfect opportunity for a true visionary about the possibilities of where the internet can go. We consider myspace lame and besides - we are not interested in the kiddie market.

The payoff is - decent cash - get to participate in the building of the business - get to work with some of the best minds in the business - get to create a lot of the next wave of where the internet is going to go.

Plus you get to run the whole design end of the business and you get shares in the company which could make you very very rich.

To apply - send a few samples of your best stuff. We don't care about age or experience. You can be 10 or 89. What we do care about is true genius - because everyone else in the group is one. So bring your A game because you gotta rev at high rpm's and work fast and incisively.

So to begin - send samples - whether they're live sites or drawing-board stuff or thumbnails of your fave concepts.

A fellow Vancouver based designer who's identity is unbeknown to me thankfully picked up on this arrogant and quite frankly laughable posting and delivered their own rebuttal posting almost directly under the original. It basically verbalises what we've all known and have been thinking for ages (rebuttal in capitals):

ROFLMAO!!! Web Design Genius Required - Best Opportunity In Town

MY GUESS IS THIS IS an emerging conglomerate of WANNABEES preparing to FAIL MISERABLY in the coming year and require a genius TO COMPENSATE FOR THEIR UTTER LACK OF SKILLS/EXPERIENCE/KNOWLEDGE to FIX the design of THEIR WEAK properties currently numbering 7 UNRELATED/ILL-DESIGNED domains.

Genius means you must be fully-conversant in all design/tech languages, ROFLMAO - NOBODY IS FULLY-CONVERSANT must understand the practical linkage between cool design and tech backbone and overall principles of marketing - and your work must blow the doors off anything else out there - AND ALL FOR A WHOPPING $17 PER HOUR!!!!!!!!!!!

You must be able to create greatness but also follow instructions from the CEO - A MEGALOMANIAC - WHO HAS IDEAS AND NO CASH OR KNOWLEDGE ON HOW TO REALLY MAKE IT HAPPEN who is DELUDED INTO BELIEVING HE IS one of the true marketing geniuses and a pioneer in the internet field. THE PIONEERS OF THE INTERNET HAVE MOVED ON ALREADY...

This is the perfect opportunity for a true visionary about the possibilities of where the internet can go. We consider MySpace lame and besides - we are not interested in the kiddie market. KIDDIE MARKET?? EVERY MAJOR POP STAR IN THE WORLD IS ON THERE YOU CLOWNS... WHAT TURNIP TRUCK DID YOU JUST FALL OFF OF?

The payoff is - UNDERPAID - get to participate in the building of the business - get to work with some of the best minds in the business - get to create a lot of the next wave of where the internet is going to go. IF SOMEONE TRULY KNEW THAT THEY WOULDN'T WORK FOR JOKERS LIKE YOU ASSES.

Plus you get to run the whole design end of the business and you get shares in the company which WILL END WITH YOU WORKING 10-16 HOURS A DAY AS THE CEO DRIVES AROUND IN HIS LEASED VEHICLE SIPPING 'BUCKS WITH FAKE TANNED WOMEN AND DREAMS OF BEING RICH.

DESIGNERS BEWARE. DO NOT SEND THIS TYPE OF INDIVIDUALS YOUR DESIGNS - THEY WILL LIKELY USE ANY GOOD CREATIVE IDEAS AS THEY APPARENTLY HAVE NONE OF THEIR OWN AND ARE LOOKING TO BLEED SOMEONE DRY FOR NOTHING. To apply - send a few samples of your best stuff. We don't care about age or experience. You can be 10 or 89. What we do care about is true genius - because everyone else in the group is one. So bring your A game because you gotta rev at high rpm's and work fast and incisively.

So to begin - send samples - whether they're live sites or drawing-board stuff or thumbnails of your fave concepts.

PROBABLY THE OWNER OF OUT OF CONTROL FORUMS IN VANCOUVER.COM / CLUB CRAWLER SITES OR OTHER SOME TOTALLY UNPROFESSIONALLY RUN WEBSITES.

Here's hoping any future "companies" looking to post on Craigslist in the future will take note. You're not fooling anyone. Be professional - reveal who you are up front, list what you require straight up and without the arrogant fluff and maybe you'll pluck a real gem of a contractor out of the design community in Vancouver.

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