"Professional Recruiters"?

[Joshua Zeidner]

 in many cases this kind of activity is overseas IT shops doing market
research in a sneaky way.  If they don't seem legit just hang up the
phone.  -jmz

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Michael Butash<michael at butash.net> wrote:
> Anyone else notice anymore an abundance of calls from
> "recruiters" (which I use the term quite loosely) all seem to be coming
> from sweatshop call centers out of various parts of the world?  Being in
> the market for work lately, my res is flapping in the breeze on a few
> job site, and it seems I get quite literally 4-6 calls a day from these
> random *recruiters* that:
>
> a) barely/don't speak english
> b) don't know anything about the technologies they're trying to place
> for
> c) call about the same lame jobs that I myself can find scouring job
> sites
> d) most not even relevant to my held/proclaimed job title or skills
> e) are just plain rude
>
> I've gotten as many as 3 calls in 5 minutes from the same *company* with
> different cannon-fodder reps calling me about the same job, so somewhere
> a predictive dialer software is glitching.  Then they ask if I want a
> job programming asp.net or something silly, just because my resume
> mentions (begrudgingly) having windows skill, or something equally
> asinine unrelated to my actual profession.  Once I'm annoyed and tell
> them no, they practically instantly hang up to wardial/annoy someone
> else.  Rinse/repeate frustration several times a day...
>
> I figure I can't be the only person having this joy of a time, I'm just
> curious how pervasive this "sweatshop recruiting" has become in our
> field?
>
> -mb
>
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