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Silly IT Recruiters
Why is it that recruiters - particularly those that sound like they are of mid-eastern descent - feel that it is necessary to immediately follow up an e-mail with a phone call? Is their urgency such that they think that we IT professionals don’t check our e-mail? It is not that urgent to me that you contact me twice in the same minute. I check my e-mail regularly. I check my voice mail as well. I suppose it is really my fault. I should stop using Dice. Every time I update my Dice resume I get a torrent of calls and e-mails from aforementioned recruiters. These are not, I might add, the type of recruiters I’d like to be speaking to.
The type of recruiter I’d like to speak to are the ones that honor my request that you absolutely DO NOT call me during the hours of 9:00am to 6:30pm. If you need to contact me during those hours you may e-mail me. I do check it regularly. Your message will be received. Additionally I am a tad miffed by the types of jobs these people are offering. These are not local. Nor are the tele-commute-able. Do they even read my resume before suggesting I might be a candidate for such a job?
My theory is that they are commissioned to blanket any and all IT professionals with absurd job offers and annoying phone calls. I can’t even understand what they’re saying on my voice mails. It is absolutely pointless to call me to notify me that you have e-mailed previously. NOTICE: I may not have checked it within the three seconds it took you to dial my phone number. It is a game of numbers. If they contact X many professionals they are bound to get Y many potential matches.
I have an idea. Make your recruiting company’s website not look like it came from some template. Don’t contact every single user of Dice. You could hire fewer recruiters this way as you wouldn’t need to staff a freaking call center to do your job. Alternatively you could sweeten up the deal a bit. If the job looks attractive then you’ll get responses. If it looks like you’re not even trying then forget about it.
I am Stephen Holsinger and I’m hounded by mid-eastern recruiters that got my info on Dice. *Grrr!*