mr resourceful

refer a senior developer to hts and receive priceless scrolls* worth £500

'Holy cats!' as an Egyptologist once exclaimed during a guided tour of Luxor.

Intrepid referers can now stumble upon untold treasures (£500) simply by digging up a Developer for our Creative Developer position.

£500!  Not bad for a quick email referral.  But that's HTS for you - always willing to go the extra nile.

Based in the West Midlands, the role is paying up to £55k with benefits, and requires magus-like skills in as wide a range of programming language as possible, including both statically typed and dynamic languages.  Java, PHP, Ruby, etc.

The ideal candidate will be able to program in every single computer language ever created, will be preternaturally creative, will be worryingly addicted to technical blogs, and will possess immortality.

If you sphinx you know someone who could do this job, kindly drop us said individual's details (with said individual's permission) and you could find yourself rich beyond the wildest dream you ever had of being anything less than £500 richer.

Can't say pharaoh than that.

HTS referral scheme terms and conditions available at http://bit.ly/8cPZJ.

Please send CVs to nick@hts.co.uk as soon as possible . Tomb-orrow could be too late!

* by 'scrolls' I sort of mean 'pound sterling'.  Or a cheque or a bank transfer, etc.  And by 'priceless' I mean,  of course, nothing of the sort.

 

more mummy-spinning enterprises and pyramid schemes:

horse promoted

unicorn recruitment - what's it all about?

the quickest £55k you never smelled

 

horse promoted

 

One of our jobs has just been promoted.  Congratulations, job.  It has now joined the ranks of our unicorn jobs – roles that require candidates so rare that they may not exist outside the realm of myth.

 

This means that if you recommend someone for this role and we subsequently place them etc. (see HTS site for details of our referral policy) you get a unicorn-job fee of £500 – which, depending on the value of the pound when we give it to you, may or may not be of use when, say, shopping.

 

Five hundred smackaroonees.

 

Ready for this?

 

Job du jour - SAP CRM Business Analyst, to £65k, South East

 

Our genuinely spiffing client is currently praying for a Business Analyst with SAP CRM expertise.  If the candidate has some salesforce.com experience in his or her glamorous past, so much the better…

 

‘That’s not a unicorn role,’ I just heard you object.  ‘That’s just a common-or-garden horse job.  In fact, my horse could do that job.  He’s a white-hot SAP CRM Business Analyst.’

 

Just sit down and stop making a scene.  I haven’t finished yet.

 

…they’re also looking for someone with experience in the medical devices arena.

 

Not singing your horse’s praises now, are we?

 

Oh, we are?  My apologies.  In that case, kindly get your horse/unicorn to forward his CV to jayne@hts.co.uk, quoting your name and email address in case we need to contact you so that cash-money can change hands.  Alternatively, give him a handful of Polo mints and ask his permission to forward his contact details to us.

 

And if any SAP CRM BAs with medical device experience are reading this, you can apply direct here.

 

Giddy up!

 

 

More from the Unicornucopia:

 

unicorn recruitment - what's it all about?

 

job du jour - french-speaking PM with BA skills, fleet management software experience, and ability to levitate - w.mids, £competitive

unicorn recruitment - what's it all about?

 

Behold yon maiden in Domenichino’s painting.  Forsooth, she hath the air of a tinkersome pigeon!  Wherefore smiles she so? 

 

Because she’s just been handed a fistful of fifties – that is, she’s just been given £500 for referring a candidate for one of our unicorn roles*.

 

Gadzooks!  That's £250 more than our usual referral fee.

 

It's not enough to buy a new harpsichord or ransom her departed uncle Guido from Purgatory.  But she'll probably get change from a family-pack of indulgences, a La Senza chastity jumpsuit and those new GHD straighteners she's secretly been coveting.

 

A unicorn, in recruitment parlance, is a perfect candidate for a position that requires a combination of skills that’s so rare that it might only exist in myth.  Often, the skills required aren’t skills that people put on CVs or Linkedin:

 

‘We’re looking for a C++ coder whose background includes work on any machine code variant of Frogger.  Must be interested in learning Esperanto.’

 

Hunting down these candidates requires the fierce fortitude of Captain Ahab, the investigative skills of Columbo and the networking skills of someone with networking skills.

 

The thing is, if you ask clients enough questions about what kind of person they really want to hire, you'll probably find that most - if not all - roles are unicorn roles.

 

Scrutinise your own blend of skills closely enough, and you'll probably find that you're a little bit mythical yourself.

 

Unicorn recruitment is an attitude rather than an industry.  It's a Hemingway-like big-game-hunter mentality.  It's a rugged, hardboiled approach to recruitment that seeks to validate the profession by proving just what a human being can do with nothing but his or her wits, an indomitable spirit, and broadband internet access. 

 

Unicorn recruiters relish seeking out candidates for roles that scoffers call unfillable.  What's more, true unicorn recruiters treat every role as a unicorn role.  They're always saying to their clients things like - 'Yeah, I heard you, buddy - you want a B2B digital account manager.  But what kind of person are you really looking for?'

 

Unicorn recruiters are always asking their clients: 'What's the horn?'**  In other words, what's the thing that would make a candidate not just special in your eyes, but gosh-darned legendary?

 

Anyway, time to get yourself £500 or a new job.  Here are our two current unicorn roles:

 

French-speaking Project Manager with Business Analysis skills and fleet management software experience, Midlands, £competitive.

 

Japanese-speaking FMCG scientist, PhD preferable , Cambridgeshire, c.32k

 

If you are a unicorn, or if you know one, get in touch.  Our staff of ethereal maidens are awaiting your call.

 

* The witty reader will have observed that one unicorn equals twenty ponies.

* * Don't ever actually say that to a client.

 

 

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job du jour

 

 

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