I am a senior game programmer. I am available from Monday - Wed, 12 - 6 PM. Thursday - Sat, 9-1 PM. I wish to receive 60K for my salary and renumeration, ok lang kahit walang medical benefits at SSS. Assembly, C, and C++ ang forte ko. My cellphone number is 0919XXXXXXX. pls txt me kung interested kayo. I am willing to work in Alabang but I would prefer to work here in my lab kung gusto ninyo puntahan ninyo ang laboratoryo ko hehhehehe. Sige hintayin ko text ninyo.
Odd message, really.
I've interviewed people for open positions before, and what most applicants don't know is that a lot can be read about them even before the face-to-face meeting. People will make some of the darndest mistakes - some applicants will claim fluency in English in an error-filled cover letter; some applicants will plagiarize the company's own works in their portfolio.
Now, while I'm not saying that this person has committed such heinous acts, I must point out that he's already made a number of mistakes in this first missive. Whether or not Anino Entertainment calls him on this is another issue entirely, though.
1. 60K - Sixty thousand pesos a month is a pretty large amount for the local companies, much less a young company that has had only two game releases. I simply don't think that this is a realistic amount here, even for a senior programmer. Obnoxiously high salary requests like these will only get your name thrown out in the first batch of cuts, Medical/SSS or no Medical/SSS.
2. Workplace - Employees who work at home (or the 'lab', in this case) are usually a risk for a company, since these employees cannot be supervised effectively. There are too many communication problems with such an arrangement, and there's no way to guarantee that the employee will actually be working during his 'pay hours'. A company will not take pains to arrange this for an applicant whose degree of skill is unknown to them.
3. Forums post - A company's HR representatives may or may not access their own online forums - what motive would they have for doing so? It would have been a lot better to send a proper application form or resume directly to the company. For that matter, even if an HR representative would be browsing the forums, anything less than an actual resume probably wouldn't get their attention.
4. Schedule - A nominal point, but I'd wonder why this person would be free on MWF afternoons and TTS mornings - that's not a normal office schedule unless one works in something like a call center. But if that's the case, then what makes this person a "senior game programmer"? For that matter, considering that Anino Entertainment has released the only large-scale Filipino-made PC game so far, how can this person be a "senior game programmer"?
I remember having a client who was looking for someone who could do the voice-over for their new commercial. After a quick screening process, they called us to mention that they had gotten someone who had been in Miss Saigon. Having the script and all materials ready by then, we agreed on a date for which the recording could be done.
Whoever he was, he performed horribly. All the parties involved came back greatly irritated from that recording session, and eventually it was found that, although the voice-over "talent" had certainly been involved with Miss Saigon, he had done so as part of the Stage Crew.
Watch those resumes, everyone. They're more telling than you think they are.
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