I’ve told a couple of them off when they’re like ‘Hey, pass this on for money’.
I told them ‘I am not doing your job - my email address is not a marketing tool. If you have a job for *me*, contact *me*, otherwise don’t spam me and don’t waste my time.’
You want me to work your recruiting efforts, then it’s a paycheck each and every week. That’s how this thing works.
I went to a job fair down near Houston a couple years ago at my church (big, big church). While I’m there, I see a “staffing” place that I had been too the very first week I hit town. Went down, filled out all the papers, watched their idiotic videos.
So, I go to their booth, and ask if they have jobs for a college-educated, drug free person willing to work any shift. Of course, they have lots and lots of jobs.
So I ask, how is it I filled out all your forms months ago and haven’t heard a single phone call nor an email for a job? Shocked they were, I tell ya, shocked. Call me in the morning says one gal - gives me her business card.
So I call the next day - she promises action. I have left the state by now, but my cell phone never rang over the next 15 months from them nor have I ever received one email.
These people are a complete waste of time. I’ve contacted more than one.
Wow, I believe every word of that. A few years ago a friend in the design and engineering business told me that he saw a local news segment from the Detroit Auto Show where Lee Iacocca was being interviewed and he supposedly said that the biggest problem in the automotive industry is Human Resources, their policies and practices.
When I finally landed a job (April, ‘15) with a local Tier 1 supplier I started replying to recruiter e-mail by saying “I am currently out of the job market until further notice.” but that hasn’t deterred them from wanting me to update my profile, asking me straight out where I’m working, how much I’m being paid, job location, etc. They use a tactic called “applicant tracking” and I do my best to avoid getting caught up in it. I’ve always done better for myself, by myself and I think the HR ideology is the same as Big Government-liberalism in this country.