Why I Dislike Recruiting Firms (One More Example)
Published at 19:39 on 16 June 2017
So, I see a job listing. It’s obviously posted by a recruiting firm, but it’s a distinctly better than average match, and I haven’t sent anything to such people on a long time, so I decide to give it a try.
It almost immediately prompts a callback. There’s just something sleazy about the level of eagerness in the guy’s voice, and how it’s hard to get a word in edgewise. Finally he calms down enough to where I can ask a few questions.
At that point, it becomes clear that:
- No such job actually exists; he just crafted the job description to prompt responses and pad his list of existing contacts (he even admits as such), and
- Most of his clients are in Bellevue, despite his listing the job as being in “Seattle.” Bellevue is an unacceptably long commute for me, so I deliberately ask Indeed to search for jobs “only in” Seattle proper.
And that’s why I have such a dim view of recruiting and consulting agencies, and as such generally shun them. They misrepresent.