google job listing on hotjobs indicates ‘wallet’ coming?

Tue, Sep 6, 2005

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A company’s job postings say a lot about the direction of the company and potential of new products on the horizon.

Therefore, does this current listing on HotJobs indicate the creation of the much-predicted coming of ‘Google Wallet’?

I’m voting YES.

Click here to see Google’s job listing: Fraud Operations Director, Merchant Payment Solutions.

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1 Comments For This Post

Glenn Mandelkern Says:
September 19th, 2005 at 1:51 am

As a manager, I have to keep in mind the complaints of some candidates about job postings, especially since anyone of us can become a candidate once again.

Resumes, i.e., the candidate side submissions are frequently noted for highlighting, embellishments or tall tales, as witnessed in the Michael Brown FEMA furor. Job postings, the employer side submissions can and do fall into potentially deceptive territory. For instance, one employer once listed 9 technologies that a candidate had to know. Yet upon further investigation, candidates found out the cherished die-to-work-for employer actually only used 2 of the 9 listed. The remaining ones were listed to make the company seem far more advanced and trendy than it really was, especially to onlooking competitors.

There is no law stating that a posted job opening must correspond to an actual position. More than once, a company pretends to market itself one way, only to take the product a totally different direction to throw off onlookers.

Deception without deceipt has been found all throughout job hunting, from candidates who transform all weaknesses into strengths to bosses who purposely trim beard and sideburns only to let their pointy hairs emerge after the 90-day probationary period.

With candidates being all the more knowledgeable and on guard nowadays, job postings like resumes can be scrutinized for degrees of truth.

Glenn Mandelkern Says:
September 19th, 2005 at 1:51 am
As a manager, I have to keep in mind the complaints of some candidates about job postings, especially since anyone of us can become a candidate once again.

Resumes, i.e., the candidate side submissions are frequently noted for highlighting, embellishments or tall tales, as witnessed in the Michael Brown FEMA furor. Job postings, the employer side submissions can and do fall into potentially deceptive territory. For instance, one employer once listed 9 technologies that a candidate had to know. Yet upon further investigation, candidates found out the cherished die-to-work-for employer actually only used 2 of the 9 listed. The remaining ones were listed to make the company seem far more advanced and trendy than it really was, especially to onlooking competitors.

There is no law stating that a posted job opening must correspond to an actual position. More than once, a company pretends to market itself one way, only to take the product a totally different direction to throw off onlookers.

Deception without deceipt has been found all throughout job hunting, from candidates who transform all weaknesses into strengths to bosses who purposely trim beard and sideburns only to let their pointy hairs emerge after the 90-day probationary period.

With candidates being all the more knowledgeable and on guard nowadays, job postings like resumes can be scrutinized for degrees of truth.

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