Dear Contractors - recruitment consultants are brighter than you lot

[DodgyAgent]

To all you smug sneering IT contractors who regard yourselves as being vastly more intelligent than us maligned recruitment consultants you can swivel on this

Parasitic wasp wins British recruitment consultant World Scrabble Championship*

With a rich twist of irony the outcome was brought about by

The name of a parasitic wasp, a small canoe-like boat and a type of flower all helped a British recruitment consultant win the World Scrabble Championship.

[cojak]

[sasguru]

The exception that proves the rule.

[WTFH]

Dear Contractors - recruitment consultants are brighter than you lot

Change "Parasitic" to "Parasite", drop the "wasp" and "British recruitment consultant" as those words in the headline are superfluous (66 points)

[westtester]

I've never questioned the intelligence (or otherwise) of recruitment consultants, but I think it's indisputable that the vast majority are amoral sociopaths.

[DodgyAgent]

The exception that proves the rule.

Hi Thicko

[SueEllen]

Poor DA - not realising there is more than one type of intelligence.

[sal]

I have been doing an hour or two each night coming up to this and I also reviewed all seven and eight letter words in the English dictionary

If only all agents can put that much effort in reading CVs, I wouldn't be getting e-mails about exciting windows fitter or SharePoint migration lead opportunities.

[malvolio]

Sorry, but learning long lists of obscure words without understanding - or even bothering to look up - their meanings and application is not a sign of intelligence.

Although it does describe most recruitment agents' behaviour quite well...

[northernladuk]

Did the agent ask the other guy for two references everytime he put a word down?