Recruiters... I really want a job... but please but please stop wasting our time
I get approximately a dozen phones calls and 15 emails a day when I put out my resume. If I answer just one of them, it is a good day. There are several reasons I don’t answer, and it baffles me as to why I received the call or email in the first place.
Recruiters, to help you stop wasting your time, I have listed a few reason I won’t answer you.
If your email or message contains “I know you are not interested in relocating, but this job opportunity may convince you to”, don’t call and don’t email. There is a reason I say at the top of my resume, and check “I won’t relocate” on the profile information. It is because I WON’T RELOCATE!!!!! And no I don’t know anyone who lives in Nowhereville, because I don’t live there!!!!
If I have to play your message more than 3 times trying to figure out what your phone number is… well honestly, it has become so annoying that lately I have only been listening twice. If I can’t get your number because you have mastered blabbering out your phone number in less than a microsecond, I don’t waste my time trying to figure it out.
I am a “.NET” Architect. I have zero interest in becoming a Java architect. No price, no hours, no location, and no title will change my mind. No they are not the same thing because they are both object oriented.
I tell you who I am, all about my experience, the rates I am looking for, and the locations I will work in, so I expect you to do the same. If I want to know where the location is, who the client is, what the rate is, and what the duration of the contract is, I expect to be told. Keeping that information secret does you no good. The clients always have more than one recruiter/head hunter looking, and not all of them think withholding information is to their advantage. We always find out eventually. If I don’t know the rate range, I won’t interview, so the first one to give me all the info I need to make a decision, is the one I go with.
When I say no thank you to a position, that actually means no thanks. I have at least a dozen recruiter’s emails going straight to trash because they have decided to not take no as an answer. I think they went through some sort of Tony Robbins Ninja Recruiting Seminars, and have been brainwashed into not hearing or seeing the word no.
We can figure out if I am a good candidate by email. Location, rate, duration, and job descriptions can all be sent by email. If those look like a match to me, I will call you. But I don’t have time to talk to 25 people a day, I have a full-time job. So just sending me a “call me”, usually indicates to me you don’t have a job available, and you just want to collect profile information on me.
Luckily I don’t have to complain about meet and greets because you all have lost you expense accounts in the current economy. But if you start getting them back, forget it. I know there used to be point systems. They got points for getting your resume, talking to you on the phone, meeting for lunch, and doing preliminary interviews with their staff. The more points at the end of the month, the bigger the bonus.
Last but not least. If you get me on the phone and say “tell me a little bit about your background”, I’ll hang up on you. Read the resume, that is what it is for. If you can’t read, have a friend read it to you, but do not call me to have me read it to you.
I hope this helps you save a little time, at least with me.
Recruiters, to help you stop wasting your time, I have listed a few reason I won’t answer you.
If your email or message contains “I know you are not interested in relocating, but this job opportunity may convince you to”, don’t call and don’t email. There is a reason I say at the top of my resume, and check “I won’t relocate” on the profile information. It is because I WON’T RELOCATE!!!!! And no I don’t know anyone who lives in Nowhereville, because I don’t live there!!!!
If I have to play your message more than 3 times trying to figure out what your phone number is… well honestly, it has become so annoying that lately I have only been listening twice. If I can’t get your number because you have mastered blabbering out your phone number in less than a microsecond, I don’t waste my time trying to figure it out.
I am a “.NET” Architect. I have zero interest in becoming a Java architect. No price, no hours, no location, and no title will change my mind. No they are not the same thing because they are both object oriented.
I tell you who I am, all about my experience, the rates I am looking for, and the locations I will work in, so I expect you to do the same. If I want to know where the location is, who the client is, what the rate is, and what the duration of the contract is, I expect to be told. Keeping that information secret does you no good. The clients always have more than one recruiter/head hunter looking, and not all of them think withholding information is to their advantage. We always find out eventually. If I don’t know the rate range, I won’t interview, so the first one to give me all the info I need to make a decision, is the one I go with.
When I say no thank you to a position, that actually means no thanks. I have at least a dozen recruiter’s emails going straight to trash because they have decided to not take no as an answer. I think they went through some sort of Tony Robbins Ninja Recruiting Seminars, and have been brainwashed into not hearing or seeing the word no.
We can figure out if I am a good candidate by email. Location, rate, duration, and job descriptions can all be sent by email. If those look like a match to me, I will call you. But I don’t have time to talk to 25 people a day, I have a full-time job. So just sending me a “call me”, usually indicates to me you don’t have a job available, and you just want to collect profile information on me.
Luckily I don’t have to complain about meet and greets because you all have lost you expense accounts in the current economy. But if you start getting them back, forget it. I know there used to be point systems. They got points for getting your resume, talking to you on the phone, meeting for lunch, and doing preliminary interviews with their staff. The more points at the end of the month, the bigger the bonus.
Last but not least. If you get me on the phone and say “tell me a little bit about your background”, I’ll hang up on you. Read the resume, that is what it is for. If you can’t read, have a friend read it to you, but do not call me to have me read it to you.
I hope this helps you save a little time, at least with me.
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