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I usually have greedy agents who want to earn some money, not those who I would like to marry*. 
* Not that I would be that dumb in this universe.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: And you really expect him to care about you?
I'm guessing his comission would be less, ££ win every time!
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In my experience of agents I am not so sure.
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Agents don't like Money? are you sure?
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No, but I never understood why some of them did not try harder.
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A thing I have noticed, firms I have worked for don't like them and treat them as a pain. Treat canditiates like subhuman, what goes around comes around.
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Given the fact that you never received the interview link, I would wager you don't want that job anyway.
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Ah, the "agent" ... one "agent" stapled the first page of my resume to the front of someone else's and submitted that. I know because I was in the interview while they looked at "the" resume. The background questioning started "weirdly" ... "I never worked on xxx!?"
Didn't get that job (wonder why), though I did land there a few times under contract. Life.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Same thing happened to me, "ah you worked on X, I see", "No, I want to work X systems" 
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Teams interview? As in, install teams on a device that I own? Blasphemy!
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Teams or (HELP!) Zoom, thats whats secure(?)
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How about an actual phone call? My number is on my resume' and doesn't require either of us to install anything. If they insist on seeing my face I'd grill them on why, and see it as a warning of micro-management.
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Oh but that would violate GDPR (or some other rule), the 'agents' format the CV to meet company standard which mean, email, phone, postal address all come off meaning the company can't contact you without them. As above at times the 'agent' (for want of a better more offensice name)  rewrote my CV to fit the job, giving mr 15 years experince in a field that was at most 2 years old. In the post-pandemic where 'all roles are remote' you will be lucky to be able to see them face to face.
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Well if they can't contact you by email they can't really arrange a teams meeting either. In this case they obviously had some contact (presumably email) in order to agree to a time the teams meeting should happen, even though the email with the link never showed up.
Seriously though, applying for a job constitutes permission to be contacted regarding that application, equally regardless of the method of contact (within reason). If they somehow loose your phone number then they can ask for it via email the same way they asked OP to install teams.
My present job I got (with no agency involved) in the middle of the pandemic, and all my interviews were exclusively over the phone. The only time I did a video call was during onboarding where HR wanted to match my drivers license photo to my face.
My previous job (pre pandemic) only had one in-person interview. To this day I have no idea if they messed with my resume. The phone interviews in that process involved me and the potential employer both calling into the agency switchboard with a meeting code that was delivered by email. On the contrary, using phone instead of teams lets the agency invoke greater control, wherease if you use teams, you could record each others' teams ids and then go around the agency.
I stand by not supporting a video call, unless maybe I was desperate.
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Is that everyone has their own.
But why the elephanting fark does the ISO commitee sell their standards split in a dozen parts at outrageous prices each? Gonna make my own standard with blackjack and high level escorts.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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It's probably not a good idea to split up high level escorts - I think they call that murder ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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But it would make sharing fair more easy... "Here's your leg by the way" 
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
MessageBox.Show(!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_signature)
? "This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + _signature
: "404-Signature not found");
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That tells me far more about your private life than I wanted to know ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I can just see the personals ad, with the asterisk:
- Arms and legs sold separately.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Because if someone knows how to make money it's germans standardising and selling what they came up with as standard.
Secondly it's a standard to split standards into tiny bits for better standard understanding.
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
MessageBox.Show(!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_signature)
? "This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + _signature
: "404-Signature not found");
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HobbyProggy wrote: Secondly it's a standard to split standards into tiny bits for better standard understanding.
And then selling the pieces separately so that just for 8 pages of introduction you need to cough up 65€.
Ahrrrr.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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 *Kaching*
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
MessageBox.Show(!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_signature)
? "This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + _signature
: "404-Signature not found");
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My first thought was xkcd: Standards[^] but Peter_in_2780 had jumped into his time machine and already posted it 8 hours before this post was started. See The Lounge[^] in 'Calling any IoT hackers out there' below.
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(Disclaimer: Based on the forum you select for your post, I guess that you by 'ISO' mean computer related standards, networking in particular. I realize that you may be talking about all kinds of ISO standards, in any field.)
In Europe during the 1980s' protocol wars, the battle between the OSI stack and the internet IP stack was really very close. So close that my guess is that if the OSI standards documents had been freely available to anyone, and free to implement - the way the RFCs defining the internet protocols were - the OSI stack would probably have won the war. But colleges and Universities didn't have the funds to pay for those extremely costly OSI documents. For a student to obtain his own copy to use in his project work was completely out of the question.
The universities and colleges produced network guys that were convinced that the only possible way to implement a protocol was the IP based way. They had heard of the seven layers, but only as a useless description that didn't match real networks at all, not really useful for anything.
I never met a single network guy claiming that internet protocols are better engineered or designed than the OSI family. Internet won, primarily on one single "quality": Availability. You could get hold of 'specs' (some of the old ones were horrible!), you could get hold of source code implementations. You may call that a "quality", but it certainly is not a technical quality. More like a marketing quality. A sales point. And the customers went for the sales hype rather than technical design and engineering quality.
Even today, forty years later, I find that pityful.
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trønderen wrote: And the customers went for the sales hype what actually existed rather than technical design and engineering quality what was promised but still up in the air.
Also, after seeing how the committees are massacring my boy C++, retroactively root for anything that's not ISO.
Sadly the LIN protocol became ISO so nobody now has access to the actual specifications without paying a lot. I just hope my transceiver takes care of the gritty lowest levels.
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