Journal Bill Dog's Journal: recruiter pick-up lines: addendum 4
So today I got an email from the lady I spoke of in my prior JE who had only tried contacting me by phone.
Sidebar: For the few recruiters that have only called and not followed up with an email, I've decided to just ignore, as being too dodgy to get involved with. I woke up at 5:30 one morning about a week ago and tried calling a couple who had only left phone messages. One didn't even have an answering service, just rang and rang, and the other seemed to be a real company and did, but when I used their feature to touchtone in the person's name, to get to her extension and leave her a message, the system never heard of her! So I'm operating under the assumption that if you only cold-call me and don't send me anything in writing that has some kind of organizational identity on it, I'm not interested, even as desperate as I am.
Anyways, more vagueness, I guess intended to evoke intrigue:
"I have a current opportunity that you or someone you know (someone who has a real desire to accomplish something professionally that they are not getting a shot at) may be interested in learning more about."
Is that "...not getting a shot at" a reference to my appeared desperation from being out of work so long?
But now at least I have a company name, and since she's still leaving it at just an "opportunity", I do some poking around to actually try to find out what the fscking job is actually about. Since I guess she only wants to reveal it slowly. For dramatic effect, or something.
It's a testing position. They're looking for developers to do it (since they can get them, in this economy), including writing automated tests. It's listed as full-time/perm, but I'd sooner take a temporary job adding to my development skillset and experience than get sidetracked down a path there might be no coming back from. Maybe if I was planning on making a move to get into management soon, I wouldn't care how I got there.
The closing part of the email includes:
"Would you have the interest in staying aware of a scenario that might be a stronger match to your capabilities?"
Is that even English? What does that mean?!? Of course I would like to be notified if a stronger match comes your way, I'm fscking unemployed afterall! But I don't exactly understand what's the scenario that I might be interested in having continuous awareness of. Where do people learn to talk like this?
Finally, in her reply to my reply she revealed that it's not actually a perm position, but "contract-to-hire". Which may be a con in and of itself. So in summary, she's got a basic contract job to fill, and feels the need to be all mysterious about it and bait people with crap like "I had a really interesting conversation this morning and your name came up"? Hmm, maybe there are jobs that employers are finding hard to fill, even in this economy.
Don't mind me just venting. (Score:1)
"dramatic effect or something" (Score:2)
If you figure out the company and submit your resume yourself, the recruiter doesn't get a cut.
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I'd heard that some of them will just do that first, behind your back. I have visions of every job opening in my area peppered with multiple copies of a crude copy-and-paste version of the text of my resume. Maybe with a few spelling errors introduced during some attempted reformatting.
Sometimes you can't figure out the company, say if it's for a contract job. I really like it when some flesh peddling agency posts a new ad on a job board, and then I get emails from four other pimps from four other pimping o