Lumberger's definitions

job fair

A fantasy-like convention at which many corporations recruit employees by manning a company exhibit booth, accepting resumes and answering questions from applicants. Often, the corporate representatives are physically attractive young people from HR.

Engineer Joe: At the job fair, I gave a neon green resume to a cute gal in a miniskirt at the IBM booth who was giving away mini rapid prototypes and free lattes. Do you think they'll want to interview me?

Engineer Steve: Ha! IBM would never stoop to gimmicky tactics to recruit engineers! Good luck you fool!

by Lumberger July 31, 2009