Apparently I have skills I’m not even aware of. Here’s the beginning of an e-mail I received today:
I’m really not sure what to make of this. It came through a site I had applied through for another job (and never heard back on). I have no idea where the ‘impressive background in the advertising field’ bit came from–I’ve never worked in advertising at all–for that matter I’ve never made more than $7.50 an hour. This is a job with a near 6-figure salary, while I’ve only been looking for entry-level stuff.
I’d be tempted to apply just for the hell of it, but I also don’t know where this position would be located, and moving isn’t an option for me.
It’s nice to actually be approached about a job opening, but seriously, WTF?
Uhhh… I’d be extremely suspicious. Nothing against your skills but as you yourself express some surprise at both the level and source my guess would be this is some mass mailing trying to get people to sign up for something for a fee.
Also, I have just the faintest memory of someone posting something similar here before. Hope I’m wrong, I’d love to see you in line for something that striking but you know what they say about if it sounds too good to… aw, you know.
For whatever it’s worth, I just typed some of the email elements into google and got a Forbidden, warning about “referer scam”.
I’m not really surprised at the source–it’s some sort of career networking site, and it’s free for job-seekers. As I mentioned, I’ve used it once before in replying to a job advertisement. But that was for an entry level production assistant position, not a marketing team leader. I don’t even want that kind of responsibility.
I also think it’s some sort of mass mailing, it just confuses the hell out of me.
I get these all the time. I’m pretty sure they’re scams in one way or another, especially since I’ve gotten several from different ‘companies’, but they’re all worded roughly the same, particularly with an ending line along the lines of “If you don’t want to receive any more job offers from us, please click here.”
I’m not yet lucky enough to receive a real unsolicited job offer, but I expect that the incoming email (or better yet, phone call) would come across far more genuinely.
I am on a number of job sites, and get emails (and phone calls) like this all the time. The first one, I bit on. The hooked me with “we saw your resume and have some positions open that we think you’d be a great fit for”. They promised more information at the “interview”.
Ok, so I take off work, get my hair cut, suit on, and drive 45 minutes to the interview. I was taken to a room, which filled up with about 10-12 other people. Someone came in and started telling us how much money we could make selling insurance to old people. Over the phone. But, we were told, we wouldn’t just be cold calling random people, we’d be targeting people that had expressed an interest in buying.zzzzzzzzzzzzz…I stayed about 20 minutes, why I don’t know. I think I was just in shock that I took off work for something so stupid. A few people got up and left, which broke my paralysis and I was able to leave.
Not sure what on my resume screamed “marketing career” - I am a programmer and everything on my resume except my current shitty job is all technical programing jobs. But as I said, I’ve gotten a lot of these since, and I’ve learned not to even respond if they don’t have specific job information when they contact me.
Yeah, total scam, I get a few every once in a while whether I’m looking for work or not. I think they cull email addresses from bot scans of sites like monster.com… I haven’t used Monster in years but I apparently still have a (very old) profile there.
The emails are worded almost identically, they’re always from companies I’ve never heard of, much less submitted to, and my “extensive experience in <whatever>” is invariably a field I’ve never worked in and have no interest in. Usually sales, which is even funnier, since I couldn’t sell water to a man dying in the desert. I tried sales exactly once (first job as a teenager), and it was that bad.
I don’t bother with the “unsubscribe” link, I just delete them without responding… most have some sort of tracking bug in them, so since I never turn the images on before deleting they hopefully believe it’s a dead email address. At least I’ve never noticed getting another email from the same company, but it’s not like I carefully keep track of these companies either.