I’ve been with my current company for about 8 months now but somehow, my resume is still floating out there somewhere on the intarwebz. Recruiters call me constantly with this offer and that offer and they never seem to know where they got the resume from. If only I could tell where they’re getting my name and number, I could go take the resume down, but I basically flooded the internet during my job search last year. I probably have dozens still out there somewhere on this job board or that search engine. It’s a nice problem to have, I know, but…geez, it’s annoying. Does this happen to anyone else?
Sounds like a candidate for that “Problems you have that won’t get you any sympathy” thread that was floating around last week. 
Quoth Waylon Smithers: “Can’t a man walk down the street without being offered a JOB?!”
Pretty much happens everytime I get a new job, I don’t mind because sometimes a better job comes along when you least expect it.
That’s how I landed this job. It got me closer to the city and gave me a $20,000 raise. Plus, I’m essentially my own boss. Now I can post on the Dope for 7 hours a day instead of the previous 4! Yay!
A classic one for consultants is being called about an opening in their own current team. Which, if they have an updated resume (in my case, they usually do), is listed: right under the phone number the moron of an agent just called!
Oh yeah, I get called by X to work with Y on project P all the time, despite having “currently working for Y on P” right there on the resume.
“Hi, I came across your resume and it seems like you’re a perfect fit for this contract.”
“Yeah, that’s because I’m on it.”
Yeah, got to love recruitment agents.
‘We have a position which is perfect for your skill set’.
‘Really? That’s great’
‘So, what is your skill set?’
My husband gets calls and emails all the time - some based on a resume he posted 5+ years ago! I think he got his job at NASA from a random cyberresume encounter.
Oddly enough, he also gets spammy recruiters trying to get him into sales or insurance. He’s an engineer. He has zero on any resume mentioning sales or insurance. So these approaches are truly spam.
I thought this was a bad economy with no jobs available. Then I looked for one.
I accepted one offer, turned down at least half-a-dozen legitimate others, quit the job I took, was called for an interview with another company (then, again, for a second interview), turned them down because yet another company offered a better deal.
Nobody’s called today, though.
It seems to go in cycles in my job. I’ll go through a period when a lot of head hunters call and periods when I hear nothing.
Just got call from a headhunter today, for a position in Columbus, OH. (I live in the Cleveland area.) I was in the process of hanging up on my when my called got dropped - no big loss. 
I haven’t updated my resume, or posted one anywhere in six years, since I got my current job. But apparently there are people out there looking for somebody whose last job experience was working as a CS research assistant in 2004.
If this job market really is so tough, I’m not seeing it in the software development arena, speaking as someone trying to hire competent developers. Let’s just say this was our worst season ever for recruitment (we generally hire people right out of school) - we interviewed dozens of people, and managed to get 4 first-year summer interns and one full-time developer. Last summer we had 8 interns and two new full-time hires. There’s not so much a lack of candidates as there is a lack of competent people - I’m talking Master’s degree candidates with several years of work experience who cannot solve a simple problem that requires using a for loop.
I hear you on the competent part for swdev’s. I started looking for a new job the past month, and I’ve found it to be rather easy, I contacted a few recruiters that former coworkers have had success with, they send me a bunch of jobs that align with mine, I pick a few, talk to that company, etc.
I think I just work in a specialized field with lot’s of demand, but I don’t understand the fuss that people have with being able to get jobs. I had similar experiences about 6 months ago, heard back from lot’s of companies, but in the end decided to stay at my current company after raise and promotion that coincidently happened at the same time.
I’ve had our in house recruiter call some of my employees while at their desk. Ridiculous.
In a strange yet interesting turn of events, I got yet another call today from a company that had uploaded me into their internal job database. They offered me a job and asked what I’d require to leave my current job.
I took my salary, inflated it to ridiculous proportions, then added some more to make a substantial raise. Then I added some more just to be funny. I asked for, essentially, a $32,000 raise.
They gave it to me! Holy crap, I’m rich! What kind of car should I buy? How many suits?
Well, F*** you all very much. I worked about 11 months out of the last 40, owe two months rent, about that on utilities, haven’t paid child support in over a year, and I can’t remember how long I’ve been holding off the credit card banks. Last week I finally got a consultancy in a city 400 miles away, so I can’t see my kids, I have to maintain two apartments, and I have no idea how long it will last. Yes, the job market still sucks donkey balls, and yes, the headhunters are calling people all over the place – they, too, are competing for jobs, and for decent resumes to present for jobs they don’t understand. Headhunters can’t hire you, numbnuts – they can’t “offer a job” either – they can only offer to present your resume. I get several calls like that every week, often for the same job, and if I agree to let one present me, I still don’t get a call back, much less an interview. There’s no guarantee that any opportunity actually exists; some companies just use this system to test the waters, others use it to satisfy some “public posting” requirement for an internal hire, other are waiting for the perfect candidate, but don’t know how to write a job description… the list goes on.