Recruiters or Spammers

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Ok, this is not about any nationality, but somehow I am a favorite of Indian recruiting firms. Here are some of my top concerns.

  1. I get constant bombardment of calls from “IT and Staffing Specialist” for contract position jobs, when I clearly stated in my resume and also clicked the preference on my Indeed account that I am only interested in Full time positions. Why would I be interested in a 3 month contract position in Raymond, OH when I (Alhamdulillah) have a full time job in Washington.

  2. I get calls starting at 5:30 in the morning. Yes I know that my cell is east coast number, but my resume clearly shows that I am residing in west coast. Have some mercy people.

  3. I get 3-4 calls from the same staffing firm, one call after the other, about the same contract position, from 3-4 different guys. I mean once one of you calls a person, dont you have a database (or an excel sheet on a server) where you enter the name of that person, so the guys sitting on your left and right are not calling the same Mr Tariq again? :smack:

  4. I get calls for the jobs that have absolutely nothing to do with my field. Just because I have Fortran as one of my computer language skill and I have used Unix do not make me a Networking Engineer. Did you even bother to read my resume before decided to give me a call?

  5. And could you please not call yourself Adi or Kal when your name is Adithya or Kalyan. And please dont send me emails from Ram K account, when you are Jay Kumar.

I stopped picking any call that is showing a New Jersey number. I feel bad for these guys. They have extremely heavy accent which is hard to understand even by me, and they sound and act desperate. No professionalism whatsoever. If this is their full time job, then I feel sorry for them. More than these guys, I am surprised about the staffing companies who are hiring them as recruiters, and their managers who are running such an unprofessional operation.

Rant over.

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Why u hate Indians, Mr. T?

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I love Indians Mr S, especially Kajol.

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“Fortran”

:wow:

dude you’re ancient!!!

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yeah , that is called Call center recruitment ! where they dont have a clue who they are recruiting for whom!

Also they arent really recruiters , they are only sales people on a heavy sales mission, you and many others are just a number for them . For a recruiter , they hardly get to make any more than 10 candidate calls a day !! And to top it up , a real recruiter knows their candidates well .

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Lol Muzna, yes I am old. But Fortran is still a very relevant language amongst engineers.

CB, I did not know that. Thanks for the details

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TLK- get a google voice number, put that on your linked in profile and resume, have it to forward calls to you after a certain time or just have the voicemails get transcribed and go to your gmail.

Problem solved...technology will set your free

PS: Well at least until our A.I. robot overlords take over

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TLK remove those R rated pictures from your profile.. you would stop getting those desperate calls :smooth:

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X2, Google voice is not a bad idea. The only reason I kept the real number is so if actually a head Hunter our corporate recruiter calls that I like to talk to, I don't have to give them another number for the future communication. It may create a negative impact.

Sid, r rated pics are too 2005. Yeah natural ka zamana hai. You should put yours on your resume too.