OT: Headhunter Harrassment

[Michael Butash]

It's common.  I delisted myself years ago from all job sites, and still 
get pseudo-spam calls for randomly applicable positions.  I assume 
unlimited spamish companies simply replicated my data from job sites at 
some point indefinitely.  Privacy is an illusion these days.

The worst usually sound like some call center with disinterested people 
and bad accents cold calling to ask if you want to make them money 
working for someone (because translation is that bad).  Some local 
companies are always worse, att networking positions usually for me 
having the worst recruiters possible, just one yesterday again.

Some local recruiters are better than others, you get to know the good 
ones after a while that actually have good contacts in the industry.  I 
answer their calls (android users: mr. number is fairly good for 
detecting spam calls).  Everything else is simply cold-call sales, 
typically with the tact of a used-car salesperson.

-mb


On 02/18/2012 09:31 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
> I've heard of this before. It's even happened to me a few times and I'm
> not even a linux professional, merely a hobbyist. I have to wonder if
> these people who call are working for companies that are really
> desperate for someone, or if they're working some scam.
>
> On 2/18/2012 20:30, Tom Jones wrote:
>> You're not alone.  I can't count the number of Winjobs I've been sent in the last few months.  This despite the fact that Windows doesn't appear on my resume.
>>
>> My favorite, though, happened just last week.  Cold call from headhunter, talking about a Unix job and then she asks me, "Are you still in St. Joseph, MO?"  Once I let her know that I've never lived or worked there, she couldn't get off the phone fast enough.  At no point did she say she was actually calling for me, nor bother to confirm I was the person she was looking for.
>>
>> TJ
>>
>> Lisa Kachold<lisakachold at obnosis.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> I get 15 email a day for National 3-6 month contracts.
>>> I get 4 calls a day for Arizona 3-6 month contracts, none of which I
>>> applied for.
>>> Some of these don't even fall into "IT"; but include engineer,
>>> administrator, etc.
>>>
>>> It's incredibly annoying.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Michael Havens<bmike1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> What... you don't like the love?
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Lisa Kachold<lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Am I the only one or do other Linux professionals get hounded by email
>>>>> and calls from headhunters?
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