Yeah, I went on an interview once, and the hiring person says, “Oh, I see you have experience with {SOME_APPLICATION}. That’s not a requirement, but nice to have.”
And I’m like “Uh, actually I’ve never used {SOME_APPLICATION}, but I do have experience with {ANOTHER_APPLICATION} and {YET_ANOTHER_APPLICATION} which do the same thing…”
“Oh, but it says here on your resume…”
And I take a look, and the recruiter who sent me on the interview edited my resume to add this experience, because they saw the keyword on the job listing.
Asshole.
The place offered me the job anyway, but I decided not to take it…it would have been a hell commute, and I didn’t want to work as a contractor when the recruiter is cutting corners like that.
I like the guy who calls me about every other month to offer me an exciting new position with Company X. It sounds awesome, what with the “work your own hours” and the “unlimited income potential” and the “ability to be your own boss.”
Except for the fact that my job will be going business-to-business trying to get companies to sign up for Company X’s credit card processing machines. Of course, any business who needs credit card processing equipment will, in fact, have credit card processing equipment.
Good lord, do you have any idea how much it would slow things down on their end if they read every resume & job description? Much simpler just to punch the search engine and send out a template email to every email address that the search spits out. We’re the ones who are looking for work; let us do all the heavy lifting so they can collect their commission.
Truth: I saw this thread title and knew exactly what it was going to be about. Okay, well I didn’t know, but the title made me think of how goddamn irritating those useless-as-dog-shit sales recruiters are who seem to call everyone whose phone number they can find to tell them what a “great fit” they’d be for current sales openings! So when I read the OP and saw he was bitching about *precisely *what grinds my gears, I decided to commiserate. I think I’m going to feign interest in one of these positions one day so that I can be invited over for an interview where I can set their building on fire.
Of course, they had no reason to believe that a guy who could afford tuition and a cellphone payment could possibly come up with the money to pay them. I guess it was foolish of them to try to harass the poor guy into adjusting his priorities.
Hey Quicksilver…would this insurance company be AFLAC ???
They use an MLM model for their sales force…“hiring” anyone with a pulse as an independent agent, getting them to waste money on training and state insurance exams,letting them rack up a few policy sales to friends and family then basically letting them go broke while they round up the next batch of suckers and promise them 6 figure incomes.
I have an uncle that has just fallen victim to this but he has no critical thinking skills ( no wondering why he got handed a legitimate high-paying job out of nowhere) and there’s no talking to him – part of the training is teaching you to ignore people who point out the scam. He’ll find out on his own soon enough, I think
Do you chew with your mouth open? Talk with a mouth full of food? Are you a fucking slob (who will make a mess of the break room)? Are you rude to the waitress/people at the counter? Do you spend the time bitching about the food/atmosphere/staff/experience? Do you openly belch at the table? Order three alcoholic drinks? Make nasty comments about other people you see?
There’s a lot of behavior that gets displayed that you may never see at an interview in the office.
And conversely, the candidate learns similar valuable things about superiors at the company allegedly offering the job. Most importantly: what sort of firm has an interviewer hang out in a cheap Mexican food dive grilling prospects about their supervisory experience? (Mrs. J. and I had the table next to this interviewer recently)*
Not that I recall. I got at least three calls in the span of a few days from various insurance/finance companies. New York Life was the last one, which led me to write this rant.
What I hate is when the ad doesn’t say the company name, so you send the resume. And when they call you, the name they give doesn’t indicate they are a recruiter, and actually ask you to come in for an interview. Only when you get there do you realize you’re screwed. Still, you take proficiency tests, fill out IRS forms, show them your birth certificate, and then they sit you down, poke at their keyboard, and tell you they don’t have anything for you right now.
Also, one recruiter wanted me to lie on my resume and put experience down that I didn’t have.
Three days after getting my new phone number (so it wasn’t on any form I’d filled out) I got a call from someone who paused when I said my name, and then said that they had recieved my resume (liars) and wanted me to complete a phone survey regarding my experience and contact information. This person DID NOT tell me his name or his company name.
Now it’s possible that the previous owner of this number had sent them her resume, since the day after I got the number I was getting calls from friends of hers who didn’t know that it wasn’t her number anymore. But to just pause at a male voice and claim he’d gotten MY resume? :dubious:
Ah, the Indian recruiters! I get calls from them all the time. If one calls me about a job, I can expect 3-5 more from different people for the same job. My best guess is that they are in some call center in Mumbai getting paid next to nothing, scouring Monster.com looking for people to match up with jobs. The commission can actually be rather high if you match someone up. I’ve had people who barely spoke English asking about my “rehzoom.” They have no sense of geography or pay rates. If you respond, you will get contacted by someone who speaks better English and has you send a statement that you are officially applying through them. While it may seem like a scam, the ones I’ve responded to were legit and actually led to some decent interviews with real companies. Often it gets passed to a major staffing agency (whom I assume pays the commission).
Years ago, I used to get plagued with offers from Primerica Insurance (think Amway). It got to the point where I put No Primerica Agents in my objective.
I remember back when I was desperate, going in for an ‘interview’ for some extremely vague ‘not sales’ job. Turned out to be a whole bunch of us brought in (so, not an interview) for commissioned positions trying to bring in people loaded with debt (like me at the time) and wrap up all of it into one large loan so they’d only have a single payment to make.
So…
‘Interview’ that wasn’t an interview, it was mass sales pitch
‘Not Sales’ but was nothing but selling overpriced loans
and paid nothing but commissions.
