Bad recruiters

[planet planet]

There are some recruiters who call you and ask you obviously canned questions, whether it completely doesn't apply to your resume or not. It's like they don't even read your resume. Anyway, I'll usually talk to recruiters if it's anything remotely interesting just to keep a gauge on my market value and to keep an eye out/kick the tires. I also hate it when they're so busy interrogating you that they don't tell you much at all about the opportunity/company. Isn't part of their job selling you on the opportunity? It certainly doesn't get me too jazzed about continuing the process. Does anyone else deal with some really bad recruiters?

[cardinalkarp]

My wife is dealing w/ one and they're terrible. They haven't done squat as far as job offers.

[Hungary Jack]

Outside of Executive and senior management positions, recruiters play a numbers/volume game where they cycle through hundreds of resumes in order to identify 5-10 candidates that they can present to the client to show them that they have done their homework. They don't care much about selling the recruit on the opportunity, because they can always move on to the next resume. They also figure that it's the client's (employer) job to sell the recruit on the opportunity.

These recruiters aren't much more than intermediaries, and are paid as such. Technology is chipping away at their business, and the amount of personal attention they provide is indicative of the pressure they are under.

[jim]

I make them wish they never left their mothers womb when they call unsolicited. So no, not really, I toy with them, have fun with them, but never actually deal with them.

[Leroy]

I got my dream job from an unsoliceted recruiter, so I have no complaints.

[docellis]

I love Planet's new wide stance avatar.

[planet planet]

I love Planet's new wide stance avatar.

You know who it is, don't you? I'll give you a hint, it's not Max Headroom.

[docellis]

I love Planet's new wide stance avatar.

You know who it is, don't you?

Oh yes - I once gave him a blue mohawk iirc.

[JL21]

I got my dream job from an unsoliceted recruiter, so I have no complaints.

CEO of a chocolate factory run by hookers?

[Leroy]

I got my dream job from an unsoliceted recruiter, so I have no complaints.

CEO of a chocolate factory run by hookers?

Pixie dust spreader on the Tilt-A-Whirl.