Failure to Launch
Jun. 25th, 2010 08:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aseME: We spoke yesterday morning?
RECRUITER: Yeah, you said you needed some time to consider the position.
ME: Honey, you haven't told me what the position is.
Hint: when a woman whose resume is 100% south of the Mason-Dixon line prefaces a correction with "honey", she's probably not pleased. Another bad sign is "bless his/her heart".
I haven't had successful experiences with recruiters. I find that individually, they're nice people, but I've gotten exactly one interview through a staffing agency, and that was in the 2007 entry-level metro DC market. (I did not get the job. Not the recruiter's fault: I have since learned a lot about interviewing.) My first temptation is to play the blame game, but honestly, staffing agencies have floods of resumes to match with limited openings, in an economy where an employer can ask for a detailed list of technical skills and get someone with that skill-set, who'd really like to be employed.
With that said, wasting my time reallypisses me off challenges my attempts to grow as a person and be a more compassionate and upbeat person. When recruiters send form emails without going to the minimal effort and courtesy of pasting my name into the salutation, or cold-call three times in an hour without leaving a message to recruit me for a position for which I do not have the required skills, it doesn't make me think highly of that person or the staffing agency they represent. Irritation all around, to no good end.
That recruiter was trying, but bless her heart, she really failed to make a good impression with me.
RECRUITER: Yeah, you said you needed some time to consider the position.
ME: Honey, you haven't told me what the position is.
Hint: when a woman whose resume is 100% south of the Mason-Dixon line prefaces a correction with "honey", she's probably not pleased. Another bad sign is "bless his/her heart".
I haven't had successful experiences with recruiters. I find that individually, they're nice people, but I've gotten exactly one interview through a staffing agency, and that was in the 2007 entry-level metro DC market. (I did not get the job. Not the recruiter's fault: I have since learned a lot about interviewing.) My first temptation is to play the blame game, but honestly, staffing agencies have floods of resumes to match with limited openings, in an economy where an employer can ask for a detailed list of technical skills and get someone with that skill-set, who'd really like to be employed.
With that said, wasting my time really
That recruiter was trying, but bless her heart, she really failed to make a good impression with me.
