I keep getting emails from Talentburst about positions I am neither interested in or qualified for(DBA 6 month contract in MA?)...a total of 14 in the last 6 months(and rising.) I did reply to the first one earlier this year and received no response. When I received the same email a couple of weeks ago, I went to their site(www.talentburst.com) and found the only email listed on their contact page as sales@talentburst.com and info@talentburst.com as a mailto link on every page. So I emailed them asking if Naveen Sharma was for real and of course received no response. Coincidentally the email address they are sending these to is my Monster email alias, and the founders of Talentburst all came from Monster.
Also they list 5 offices(CA, MA, Singapore, India and Canada) yet they only have one phone number with a 508 area code.
The whole thing seems fishy to me, and then when I did a search I found this site which confirmed my belief that they are spammers.
http://recruiter.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/dear-spamming-recruiter-really-does-this-ever-work/
And this:
http://lists.lugod.org/pipermail/vox-jobs/2011-September/001212.html
So here are the Talentburst recruiters I have received spam from:
Naveen Sharma naveen.sharma@talentburst.com
Neha Sharma neha.sharma@talentburst.com
Mukesh Sangwan mukesh.sangwan@talentburst.com
Bijoy Deb bijoy.deb@talentburst.com
Vinay Dabas vinay.dabas@talentburst.com
In my opinion these guys are not legit. I am posting this so anyone searching for information on Talentburst will hopefully find this and avoid dealing with them.
Updates:
July 17, 2012 - Just got another one for "Automation QA Engineer (Native Chinese Language" from Bijoy Deb
July 26, 2012 - "Finance Feed quality/tools Engineer" from Naveen Sharma
August 6, 2012 - "Service Engineer ;Sunnyvale,CA ; YAHOO ID-:14054" from Naveen Sharma
August 14, 2012 - "Data Product Support ; Sunnyvale,CA ; YAHOO ID-:14231" from Naveen Sharma
August 16, 2012 - "Senior Software Engineer ;Sunnyvale,CA ; YAHOO Job ID-: 14320" from Naveen Sharma
August 17, 2012 - "Sr. Build/Release Engineer ;Santa Clara,CA ; YAHOO Job ID-: 14344" from Naveen Sharma
August 22, 2012 - "Backend Development ;Santa Clara,CA ; YAHOO ID-: 14340" from Naveen Sharma
September 4, 2012 - "Requirement for Linux Engineer (RHEL Porting) at Sunnyvale, CA" from Vinay Dabas
September 11, 2012 - "Requirement for Unix / Linux Engineer at San Francisco, CA" from Vinay Dabas -- This is a position I used to hold (and the previous is close as well), so they aren't as egregious as the others but because of all the other emails from Talentburst, this ends up flagged as spam...EXACTLY why recruiters shouldn't blast out the other emails!)
Update September 14, 2012:
I guess Naveen Sharma jumped ship and is now at Artech Information Systems, another one that uses the same tactics.
Naveen Sharma Naveen_Sharma@artechinfo.com
September 14, 2012 - "Unix/Linux Administrator ;Santa Clara, CA ;Yahoo ID-:14446" from Naveen Sharma
v. to understand intuitively,to experience enjoyment. A Unix-like operating system.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Monday, June 11, 2012
San Francisco
I'm now in San Francisco, CA. My hands on skills are atrophied, so finding the right position is going to take some time. In the meantime, I am looking for a patent office* job so I can focus on personal and career development without becoming consumed; along the lines of a 40 hour work week in a position that I am overqualified for, so that I can focus on building my skill set and also develop some side projects I have been working on.
Of course I am always open to new opportunities, so if you have one that you think might pique my interest and/or can benefit from my background, please let me know.
*While I am no Einstein, I agree with the logic of working in a position that doesn't consume all my energy, creative or otherwise.
http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/early3.htm:
"Finally he got a position at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern. It was "a kind of salvation," he said. The regular salary and the stimulating work evaluating patent claims freed Einstein. He now had time to devote his thought to the most basic problems of physics of his time, and began to publish scientific papers."
Of course I am always open to new opportunities, so if you have one that you think might pique my interest and/or can benefit from my background, please let me know.
*While I am no Einstein, I agree with the logic of working in a position that doesn't consume all my energy, creative or otherwise.
http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/early3.htm:
"Finally he got a position at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern. It was "a kind of salvation," he said. The regular salary and the stimulating work evaluating patent claims freed Einstein. He now had time to devote his thought to the most basic problems of physics of his time, and began to publish scientific papers."
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Back in CA
Well, after a 2 year hiatus in TX attending to family matters, I am back in SoCal! My wife and I made the best of El Paso, but there is nothing like being back home in California.
I am aggressively searching for work, so I will be posting much more until I find something. I enjoyed Facebook for a while, it was a great link to all our friends while we were in the desert. But due to privacy issues and a general boredom with the site, I have migrated to Google+. I still have my account open, but not for long. I intend on sending everyone a message that they can find me on Google+ and then pull the plug. I haven't tried Diaspora yet, but it is on the todo list.
Peace
I am aggressively searching for work, so I will be posting much more until I find something. I enjoyed Facebook for a while, it was a great link to all our friends while we were in the desert. But due to privacy issues and a general boredom with the site, I have migrated to Google+. I still have my account open, but not for long. I intend on sending everyone a message that they can find me on Google+ and then pull the plug. I haven't tried Diaspora yet, but it is on the todo list.
Peace
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
I highly recommend this book if you find yourself on a tech project that involves software engineering, managing one or wondering why the hell your product has not been launched yet. This book was first published in 1975 so the technology references are rather outdated.
I first read this book in 2005 and was surprised that many of the mistakes made some 30 years prior were being made all over again on the projects I was involved with at my employer at the time. Actually quite disheartened to the point that it was clear we were on a death march if things didn't change drastically.
If you aren't into or don't have the time to read the book, you can find a decent summary at WikiPedia.
The full quote featured in the title is as follows:
"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
--George Santayana, The Life of Reason (Great Books in Philosophy)
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Free Will
"How--how did I get here?"
"It would take another Earthling to explain it to you,
Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event
is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved
or avoided. I am a Tralfamdorian, seeing all time as you
might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all
time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or
explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and
you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber."
"You sound to me as though you don't believe in free will," said Billy Pilgrim.
--
"If I hadn't spent so much time studying Earthlings,"said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn't have any idea what was
meant by 'free will.' I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets
in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will."
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut, page 82.
"It would take another Earthling to explain it to you,
Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event
is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved
or avoided. I am a Tralfamdorian, seeing all time as you
might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all
time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or
explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and
you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber."
"You sound to me as though you don't believe in free will," said Billy Pilgrim.
--
"If I hadn't spent so much time studying Earthlings,"said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn't have any idea what was
meant by 'free will.' I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets
in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will."
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut, page 82.
the myths of innovation
scott berkun, page 56
"there is nothing more difficult to take in
hand, more perilous to conduct, or more
uncertain in its success, than to take the lead
in the introduction of a new order of things.
For the reformer has enemies in all those who
profit by the old order, and only lukewarm
defenders in all those who would profit by the
new order, this lukewarmness arising partly
from fear of their adversaries...and partly
from the incredulity of mankind, who do not
truly believe in anything new until they have
had actual experience of it."
--Niccolo Machiavelli
"there is nothing more difficult to take in
hand, more perilous to conduct, or more
uncertain in its success, than to take the lead
in the introduction of a new order of things.
For the reformer has enemies in all those who
profit by the old order, and only lukewarm
defenders in all those who would profit by the
new order, this lukewarmness arising partly
from fear of their adversaries...and partly
from the incredulity of mankind, who do not
truly believe in anything new until they have
had actual experience of it."
--Niccolo Machiavelli
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