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The same recruiter just phoned again after I told them I have a job and clearly told them I'm not interested 2 separate time last week so this time I listened to what they say so at least hopefully they don't phone again.

(phone rings)
I answer
R:We are looking for a developa, how would it suit you?
M: Excuse me?
R:We are looking for a developa in Hatfield. How would it suit you?
M:Suit me? How would I know?
R:We are looking for a developa in Hatfield.
M: in what?
R: C#.
M:doing what?
R: IT
M:No, I mean is it windows, web or mobile development
R: Web.
M:I'm sorry I'm not interested.

:wtf:
 
Some very unprofessional recruiters out there. Generally I'm not a huge fan of recruitment companies, unless I've met their team in person.
 
Been working with recruitment agencies and they are shocking at best. Quality of applicant is way below par and they clearly dont know how to advertise for these posts.

Looking privately and public pages has yielded better results with people with a better attitude.
 
Surv0 said:
Been working with recruitment agencies and they are shocking at best. Quality of applicant is way below par and they clearly dont know how to advertise for these posts.

Looking privately and public pages has yielded better results with people with a better attitude.
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You got to work with recruitment agencies that use people that used to work in the industry either Directly or Indirectly as Agents. I've worked with guys that are ex Dev or ex BA and they can generally put forward high quality candidates because where most recruiters go C# *tick*, API Work *tick*, UI/UX *tick* etc, these guys will go deeper than just a catch phrase and actually see if the guy knows anything.
 
The indsutry specific recruiters can be terrible to averagebut yes the general ones are cancer.
 
Here is a great business idea. Become a non cancerous IT recruiter. The money you could make from just not being cancer in human form.
 
nfbs said:
The same recruiter just phoned again after I told them I have a job and clearly told them I'm not interested 2 separate time last week so this time I listened to what they say so at least hopefully they don't phone again.

(phone rings)
I answer
R:We are looking for a developa, how would it suit you?
M: Excuse me?
R:We are looking for a developa in Hatfield. How would it suit you?
M:Suit me? How would I know?
R:We are looking for a developa in Hatfield.
M: in what?
R: C#.
M:doing what?
R: IT
M:No, I mean is it windows, web or mobile development
R: Web.
M:I'm sorry I'm not interested.

:wtf:
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Just drop them 100K per hour fee.
 
nfbs said:
The same recruiter just phoned again after I told them I have a job and clearly told them I'm not interested 2 separate time last week so this time I listened to what they say so at least hopefully they don't phone again.

(phone rings)
I answer
R:We are looking for a developa, how would it suit you?
M: Excuse me?
R:We are looking for a developa in Hatfield. How would it suit you?
M:Suit me? How would I know?
R:We are looking for a developa in Hatfield.
M: in what?
R: C#.
M:doing what?
R: IT
M:No, I mean is it windows, web or mobile development
R: Web.
M:I'm sorry I'm not interested.

:wtf:
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Must be the same recruiter that contacted me.. had the same suit me line thrown a month ago.. was like wtf.

Reminded me of the 'Dont u want a million rand? what can't u do with that?' <-- for a life insurance sales person. I LOL.. had to explain to the oke i'd be dead and not need money at which point he changed tact to family and i ended call.
 
krycor said:
Must be the same recruiter that contacted me.. had the same suit me line thrown a month ago.. was like wtf.

Reminded me of the 'Dont u want a million rand? what can't u do with that?' <-- for a life insurance sales person. I LOL.. had to explain to the oke i'd be dead and not need money at which point he changed tact to family and i ended call.
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Had the same call last week sometime. It caught me off guard as well.
 
I have yet to meet a good recruitment agency.
 
Had a recruiter phone on my landline at work. I don't even know the number myself, no idea where they got the number from even...

The guy was recruiting for a frontend javascript specialist. I specialize in java. He had no idea what the difference was :/
 
Also had my share of headhunters.

One lady promised to call me after-hours as it was very busy at the office and I could not give her my full attention

she never phoned back... guess she found somebody else then.
 
Just tell him that this call is charged at R150 per minute, and if it's a job opportunity or sales pitch, you'll switch to the R300 per minute band. Seems dumb enough to believe you.

nfbs said:
The same recruiter just phoned again after I told them I have a job and clearly told them I'm not interested 2 separate time last week so this time I listened to what they say so at least hopefully they don't phone again.

(phone rings)
I answer
R:We are looking for a developa, how would it suit you?
M: Excuse me?
R:We are looking for a developa in Hatfield. How would it suit you?
M:Suit me? How would I know?
R:We are looking for a developa in Hatfield.
M: in what?
R: C#.
M:doing what?
R: IT
M:No, I mean is it windows, web or mobile development
R: Web.
M:I'm sorry I'm not interested.

:wtf:
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The following recruiter sells your information to third parties. Before long you will have people phoning you to sell you life insurance.

BGP Africa Consulting.

Also very unprofessional outfit, has no cooking clue about IT.
 
I received an email last week from a recruiter with the subject line:
"if (current.state==coding) { stop = “read this email”; }"

Didn't bother reading the rest, just deleted the email.
 
Cam said:
Had a recruiter phone on my landline at work. I don't even know the number myself, no idea where they got the number from even...

The guy was recruiting for a frontend javascript specialist. I specialize in java. He had no idea what the difference was :/
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Had the same thing happen to me. Only issue was my manager answered the phone and this guy went on to tell him that he is a recruiter looking for me.
 
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