"Professional Recruiters"?

[Michael Butash]

I guess for me I've been long enough removed from being exposed to the
job meat markets to see things have progressed to such behavior.  It got
to the point that they became like gnats quickly just waisting my cell
phone minutes, especially when 99% of what they were calling me about
wasn't even relevant.  It's equatable to voice spamming for their
income, which makes my want to work with them even less.  

After dealing with it for a few weeks, I began considering the margins
of profit they're making and considered what it would take to do so
myself as a hobby, but I'd just feel like a shoe salesman, telemarketer,
or other equally undesirable employment.  At least how they go about
it...

Agreed about DIY, any job worth having really has come from my own
scouring, referrals, or social networking of some sort.  I figured it
couldn't hurt to float my info out there to see what came to me, but
geez was I wrong.  Quite the sad state of affairs.

-mb


On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 20:37 -0700, Mike wrote:
> Michael Butash 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