Company recruiter asking who else I sent my CV to?

[Solarion]

You should have the professional do it in XML format...easy to cast it into anything else after that.

Noted! I just might! :twisted:

 

[skimread]

My C.V has been done by a professional. I paid for someone to do it up really nice but simple.

Now this woman from an agency, sends me a word document with tables etc. Insists I do my C.V. in that format (presumable to feed through an automatic document reader). Basically I must sit for 3 hours transferring my entire C.V into a new format because she is too godam mother****ing lazy to do it herself. I must do her job for her.

You'll be shocked to see how bad recruiters structure and format it if they do it themselves. Most of them do this. That's why it's good to have an online presence to which your CV points to.

 

[DA-LION-619]

You should have the professional do it in JSON format...easy to cast it into anything else after that.

FTFY and it will be human readable.

 

[Solarion]

You'll be shocked to see how bad recruiters structure and format it if they do it themselves. Most of them do this. That's why it's good to have an online presence to which your CV points to.

I am working on that part at the moment, which is where that demo I was working earlier on comes in. I mean really, asking someone to redo an entire C.V. I really just said to the lady "Look aunty, I'm looking for another job, here is my C.V. and a demo project. What more could you possibly want?"

 

[skimread]

I am working on that part at the moment, which is where that demo I was working earlier on comes in. I mean really, asking someone to redo an entire C.V. I really just said to the lady "Look aunty, I'm looking for another job, here is my C.V. and a demo project. What more could you possibly want?"

Tell her you will use another recruiter . An interview is also a networking opportunity. When you go to an interview provide the interviewer with your own page CV. If 2 pages make it double sided. The recruiters love to use huge fonts with many pages but it ends up looking like amateur hour when you have a 7 page CV.

 

[MagicDude4Eva]

Hi guys.

I graduated with a Computer Science degree, and I have sent my CV to several companies at once. I got an email today from a recruiter from one of these companies, asking whether I interviewed by another company already, and if I sent my Cvs to other companies as well.


I told her that I did, and she is now asking me to please name them. Is this standard behavior? Why would a company want that information?

This is not an innocent question from a recruiter to avoid double-posting your CV to the same company. This are shady tactics to find out what other companies require a similar skill-set than yours so that recruiters can then dump similar CVs at those companies.

The recruiters to the same with employers: They will ask if you have hiring requirements and if so, which companies would have similar skill-set requirements than yours "so that we can headhunt from them" (read=we will then dump CVs with those companies). They will also sometimes phone staff posing as headhunters and attempt to extract similar information. I don't think I can count honest recruiters on one hand.

 

[Darko]

If it's a company recruiter as in she works for a company that you applied at, then you don't really need to tell her. She's just trying to gauge if you've had other interest.

If it's a recruitment company looking for you, then you should tell her. There is no reason not to.