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I have been a third party recruiter for more than 40 years.
I'm
currently recruiting for an IT project manager position in Texas and
received a call from another third party recruiter with a follow up to a
resume he sent to me
(IF YOU ARE A RECRUITER, DO NOT CONTACT ME ABOUT THE JOB! I ONLY NETWORK WITH MEMBERS OF NPA WORLDWIDE).
The resume was for a non-technical product manager who lived nowhere
near my client and obviously I wasn't interested in the referral.
"Hi! Did you look at the resume I sent?"
"Yes and I wasn't interested."
"But he's a product manager who wants to work in a project manager role in that town," I was told.
"Am
I supposed to care? I don't see why that makes a difference. Their
experience doesn't fit what my client wants and, beyond that, everything
you are saying is irrelevant."
"But . . . "
That was the last word I heard because I hung up.
I've
heard tales of woe from many job hunters who talk about being
bludgeoned by a recruiter to go on an interview for a job they are
neither qualified for or interested in.
"You'll never know unless
you go," one explained they were told. Another candidate said they were
pitched by someone saying, "They are a great company. You'll really like
the hiring manager."
"But the salary is $25000 less than what I'm
earning now, I'm not actively looking for a job and the position is at
least one level down from where I am and possibly two."
"But they are a great company!"
I apologize for "the badly behaved people" in my profession.
There
are so many wonderful people who really try to master their craft and
provide great service to both institutional customers and job hunters
alike.
Yet the bad experience that employers and job hunters alike
experience is real, just like the complaints I wrote about in previous
articles about resumes being spammed to recruiters and people who never
return phone calls to recruiters after sending them their resume is also
true.
I also want to acknowledge that I make mistakes sometimes.
Words are misspelled in my notes or in my ezine sometimes that get
through a spell checker (or I forget to spell check). I am sometimes
confused by time zones people are in. I am handling an enormous schedule
for myself and sometimes am confused as to where you are or confuse you
with someone else. That does not make me "a moron" and worthy of
condemnation.
The incompetent recruiters who try to ram a square
peg into a square hole are worthy of your and my contempt. They screw
things up for a lot of us and cause others to distrust those in my
profession who do try to do well and work hard to help both sides get
what they want.
Let's get together and not reward the incompetent ones and look for the good ones to work with,
© The Big Game Hunter, Inc. Asheville, NC 2015
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