"Professional Recruiters"?

[Michael Butash]

I'd considered that, but they were asking me about jobs that I know I've
been contacted about or seen already, so I think they're mostly on the
up and up, just going about it horribly wrong with monkey labor.  I
suppose it is possible still to be purely marketing efforts, but I
couldn't imagine as many of them as I've been contacted by were doing it
purely for marketing too.

Seems they're just trying to get a piece of the placement fee pie using
low-end labor much as outsourced tech support did.  Apparently with
about the same effectiveness and quality a solution too...  It's like
having Dell's annoying foreigner tech support war dialing me now, so I
am really not amused, let alone would I actually want to work through
them for a job!

-mb


n Thu, 2009-08-13 at 14:57 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> 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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