What is going on today?
May. 20th, 2009 12:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsToday, I have been beseiged by phone calls and emails from recruiters about this one job that's apparently opened up in Bellevue, and every pattern matcher on the planet is recommending me for the job. I've told one recruiter to go ahead and submit me, of course.
Along with the three mainstream recruiters from local hauses that I recognize, there have been three phone calls and almost a dozen emails from men and women with accents so thick I often couldn't make out what they were saying. When I could, their English was fractured and terrible.
But more than that, they were rude. It wasn't "Please send me your resume and a phone number where we can reach you." It was "Here are the job requirements. You meet them. Send me your resume now. Sign and fax us this PDF form that says you agree that we exclusively represent you for this offer." Uh, fuck you? I'm not going to send you my resume blind, you git, and if you double-submit me I'm doomed.
I know the market's desperate, but geez, this is outsourcing human contact.
Along with the three mainstream recruiters from local hauses that I recognize, there have been three phone calls and almost a dozen emails from men and women with accents so thick I often couldn't make out what they were saying. When I could, their English was fractured and terrible.
But more than that, they were rude. It wasn't "Please send me your resume and a phone number where we can reach you." It was "Here are the job requirements. You meet them. Send me your resume now. Sign and fax us this PDF form that says you agree that we exclusively represent you for this offer." Uh, fuck you? I'm not going to send you my resume blind, you git, and if you double-submit me I'm doomed.
I know the market's desperate, but geez, this is outsourcing human contact.
