SRSOTD (Stupid Recruiter Story Of The Day)
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I applied for a position on Indeed. Recruiter calls me about it. Initially very positive. I got a job through them before. They have a group of about 10 recruiters. So he says "When can we schedule a face to face Skype meeting so you can meet the rest of my .Net team?. I asked him how long it would take, and he says "... about 10 or 15 minutes per team member." :confused::confused: I asked him why I needed to me "the rest of the .Net team". He said "So when a position comes in we'll have a face to put with the name" - mind you they already have my resume. So I said "Do they have open positions that I might be a fit for?"... "No, I just like to have all my people meet each person we contact" - huh? WTF?? He wants me to sit there on Skype and go through introductions individually with 10 people for 10-15 minutes per person when they don't even have positions to tell me about!! I really want that position I applied for, yet I have zero desire to "meet they .net team". I might have said OK if it we're a quick 5 minute thing with all of them at once, but we're talking an hour & a half. Is this guy nuts??!!:confused::confused:
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
So now you understand why they get paid so much, right? (sorry - I really need to add a sarcasm emoticon) And don't even get me started on real estate agents...
cheers Chris Maunder
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So now you understand why they get paid so much, right? (sorry - I really need to add a sarcasm emoticon) And don't even get me started on real estate agents...
cheers Chris Maunder
I've worked with a lot of recruiters. I can honestly say that maybe 1 percent of them are worth more than sidewalk spit.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I applied for a position on Indeed. Recruiter calls me about it. Initially very positive. I got a job through them before. They have a group of about 10 recruiters. So he says "When can we schedule a face to face Skype meeting so you can meet the rest of my .Net team?. I asked him how long it would take, and he says "... about 10 or 15 minutes per team member." :confused::confused: I asked him why I needed to me "the rest of the .Net team". He said "So when a position comes in we'll have a face to put with the name" - mind you they already have my resume. So I said "Do they have open positions that I might be a fit for?"... "No, I just like to have all my people meet each person we contact" - huh? WTF?? He wants me to sit there on Skype and go through introductions individually with 10 people for 10-15 minutes per person when they don't even have positions to tell me about!! I really want that position I applied for, yet I have zero desire to "meet they .net team". I might have said OK if it we're a quick 5 minute thing with all of them at once, but we're talking an hour & a half. Is this guy nuts??!!:confused::confused:
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
Simply say that you think it's absurd, and that you don't have the time to meet with numerous people with no benefit for you in it.
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I applied for a position on Indeed. Recruiter calls me about it. Initially very positive. I got a job through them before. They have a group of about 10 recruiters. So he says "When can we schedule a face to face Skype meeting so you can meet the rest of my .Net team?. I asked him how long it would take, and he says "... about 10 or 15 minutes per team member." :confused::confused: I asked him why I needed to me "the rest of the .Net team". He said "So when a position comes in we'll have a face to put with the name" - mind you they already have my resume. So I said "Do they have open positions that I might be a fit for?"... "No, I just like to have all my people meet each person we contact" - huh? WTF?? He wants me to sit there on Skype and go through introductions individually with 10 people for 10-15 minutes per person when they don't even have positions to tell me about!! I really want that position I applied for, yet I have zero desire to "meet they .net team". I might have said OK if it we're a quick 5 minute thing with all of them at once, but we're talking an hour & a half. Is this guy nuts??!!:confused::confused:
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
I think you're lucky to get a reply related to the position you actually applied for. As soon as my CV gets updated on any site I get bombarded with recruiters and usually end up chatting to 1 or 2 about positions not even related to what I orginally saw.
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I applied for a position on Indeed. Recruiter calls me about it. Initially very positive. I got a job through them before. They have a group of about 10 recruiters. So he says "When can we schedule a face to face Skype meeting so you can meet the rest of my .Net team?. I asked him how long it would take, and he says "... about 10 or 15 minutes per team member." :confused::confused: I asked him why I needed to me "the rest of the .Net team". He said "So when a position comes in we'll have a face to put with the name" - mind you they already have my resume. So I said "Do they have open positions that I might be a fit for?"... "No, I just like to have all my people meet each person we contact" - huh? WTF?? He wants me to sit there on Skype and go through introductions individually with 10 people for 10-15 minutes per person when they don't even have positions to tell me about!! I really want that position I applied for, yet I have zero desire to "meet they .net team". I might have said OK if it we're a quick 5 minute thing with all of them at once, but we're talking an hour & a half. Is this guy nuts??!!:confused::confused:
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I applied for a position on Indeed. Recruiter calls me about it. Initially very positive. I got a job through them before. They have a group of about 10 recruiters. So he says "When can we schedule a face to face Skype meeting so you can meet the rest of my .Net team?. I asked him how long it would take, and he says "... about 10 or 15 minutes per team member." :confused::confused: I asked him why I needed to me "the rest of the .Net team". He said "So when a position comes in we'll have a face to put with the name" - mind you they already have my resume. So I said "Do they have open positions that I might be a fit for?"... "No, I just like to have all my people meet each person we contact" - huh? WTF?? He wants me to sit there on Skype and go through introductions individually with 10 people for 10-15 minutes per person when they don't even have positions to tell me about!! I really want that position I applied for, yet I have zero desire to "meet they .net team". I might have said OK if it we're a quick 5 minute thing with all of them at once, but we're talking an hour & a half. Is this guy nuts??!!:confused::confused:
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
Ah you were talking to the manager, he was after real time training for his people. And if you think I am joking then I can assure you I'm not, it has happened to me except that was before skype and he wanted me to come in to the office to meet all his people. I do recall this level of bullshit only seemed to happen in the UK, I don't think the Oz recruiters have the imagination, or maybe the gall to try this crap.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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I accidentally called a recruiter a Hoe once. I was replying to an email i had gotten and meant to say "Hope you've been doing well" but it auto corrected to "Hoe, you've been doing well". Maybe it was my subconscious sneaking out.
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I applied for a position on Indeed. Recruiter calls me about it. Initially very positive. I got a job through them before. They have a group of about 10 recruiters. So he says "When can we schedule a face to face Skype meeting so you can meet the rest of my .Net team?. I asked him how long it would take, and he says "... about 10 or 15 minutes per team member." :confused::confused: I asked him why I needed to me "the rest of the .Net team". He said "So when a position comes in we'll have a face to put with the name" - mind you they already have my resume. So I said "Do they have open positions that I might be a fit for?"... "No, I just like to have all my people meet each person we contact" - huh? WTF?? He wants me to sit there on Skype and go through introductions individually with 10 people for 10-15 minutes per person when they don't even have positions to tell me about!! I really want that position I applied for, yet I have zero desire to "meet they .net team". I might have said OK if it we're a quick 5 minute thing with all of them at once, but we're talking an hour & a half. Is this guy nuts??!!:confused::confused:
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
Kevin Marois wrote:
Is this guy nuts??!!:confused: :confused:
Sounds like good old Corporate B.S. to me. Pointy-haired-boss must be coordinating that effort! ;-)
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I applied for a position on Indeed. Recruiter calls me about it. Initially very positive. I got a job through them before. They have a group of about 10 recruiters. So he says "When can we schedule a face to face Skype meeting so you can meet the rest of my .Net team?. I asked him how long it would take, and he says "... about 10 or 15 minutes per team member." :confused::confused: I asked him why I needed to me "the rest of the .Net team". He said "So when a position comes in we'll have a face to put with the name" - mind you they already have my resume. So I said "Do they have open positions that I might be a fit for?"... "No, I just like to have all my people meet each person we contact" - huh? WTF?? He wants me to sit there on Skype and go through introductions individually with 10 people for 10-15 minutes per person when they don't even have positions to tell me about!! I really want that position I applied for, yet I have zero desire to "meet they .net team". I might have said OK if it we're a quick 5 minute thing with all of them at once, but we're talking an hour & a half. Is this guy nuts??!!:confused::confused:
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
Yeah, I would counter with: Well, I value my time, and I agree it might be nice for your team to have a feel for who I am, I do NOT see the need to get to know everyone on your team. Especially so many of them, and for as long as you plan. Please get this down to a 15 - 20 minute meet and greet via skype, and I would be glad to do it.
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Ah you were talking to the manager, he was after real time training for his people. And if you think I am joking then I can assure you I'm not, it has happened to me except that was before skype and he wanted me to come in to the office to meet all his people. I do recall this level of bullshit only seemed to happen in the UK, I don't think the Oz recruiters have the imagination, or maybe the gall to try this crap.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Recruiters rarely have an atom of knowledge of the area they are working with. Their expertise is with HR. How can someone who doesn't know anything about developing software be able to sell an applicant to a potential employer? Their best shot is to follow their rules of thumb and talk with confidence to try to hide their ignorance. P.S. I never use recruiters, or had you guessed that?
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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I applied for a position on Indeed. Recruiter calls me about it. Initially very positive. I got a job through them before. They have a group of about 10 recruiters. So he says "When can we schedule a face to face Skype meeting so you can meet the rest of my .Net team?. I asked him how long it would take, and he says "... about 10 or 15 minutes per team member." :confused::confused: I asked him why I needed to me "the rest of the .Net team". He said "So when a position comes in we'll have a face to put with the name" - mind you they already have my resume. So I said "Do they have open positions that I might be a fit for?"... "No, I just like to have all my people meet each person we contact" - huh? WTF?? He wants me to sit there on Skype and go through introductions individually with 10 people for 10-15 minutes per person when they don't even have positions to tell me about!! I really want that position I applied for, yet I have zero desire to "meet they .net team". I might have said OK if it we're a quick 5 minute thing with all of them at once, but we're talking an hour & a half. Is this guy nuts??!!:confused::confused:
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I think you're lucky to get a reply related to the position you actually applied for. As soon as my CV gets updated on any site I get bombarded with recruiters and usually end up chatting to 1 or 2 about positions not even related to what I orginally saw.
But the problem isn't always on the recruiter's side. I'm my department's chief engineer and as such I see some of the resumes provided by applicants (submitted both directly and through a headhunter). In many cases the qualifications and experience cited bear little relevance to the skills required for the open position. I'll add that my shop doesn't necessarily treat the mismatch as an automatic disqualification, but it certainly doesn't help the applicant. The same was true of my PPOE (in the 1960s) where the system programming manager was a med school dropout and the lead system programmer was an architect.
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I applied for a position on Indeed. Recruiter calls me about it. Initially very positive. I got a job through them before. They have a group of about 10 recruiters. So he says "When can we schedule a face to face Skype meeting so you can meet the rest of my .Net team?. I asked him how long it would take, and he says "... about 10 or 15 minutes per team member." :confused::confused: I asked him why I needed to me "the rest of the .Net team". He said "So when a position comes in we'll have a face to put with the name" - mind you they already have my resume. So I said "Do they have open positions that I might be a fit for?"... "No, I just like to have all my people meet each person we contact" - huh? WTF?? He wants me to sit there on Skype and go through introductions individually with 10 people for 10-15 minutes per person when they don't even have positions to tell me about!! I really want that position I applied for, yet I have zero desire to "meet they .net team". I might have said OK if it we're a quick 5 minute thing with all of them at once, but we're talking an hour & a half. Is this guy nuts??!!:confused::confused:
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I applied for a position on Indeed. Recruiter calls me about it. Initially very positive. I got a job through them before. They have a group of about 10 recruiters. So he says "When can we schedule a face to face Skype meeting so you can meet the rest of my .Net team?. I asked him how long it would take, and he says "... about 10 or 15 minutes per team member." :confused::confused: I asked him why I needed to me "the rest of the .Net team". He said "So when a position comes in we'll have a face to put with the name" - mind you they already have my resume. So I said "Do they have open positions that I might be a fit for?"... "No, I just like to have all my people meet each person we contact" - huh? WTF?? He wants me to sit there on Skype and go through introductions individually with 10 people for 10-15 minutes per person when they don't even have positions to tell me about!! I really want that position I applied for, yet I have zero desire to "meet they .net team". I might have said OK if it we're a quick 5 minute thing with all of them at once, but we're talking an hour & a half. Is this guy nuts??!!:confused::confused:
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
Tell them no skype you will only meet in person and only if food is provided.