All, or most of the recruiters, are run from the same Indian body shop. Amazingly, they all have the exact same opt-out provision in email.
Found out they really try to at least pretend to go through the pre-screening process. It stops once I say I’m a US Citizen. Got tired of hearing so-called ‘English’ and seeing words like revert in e-mails.
My standard reply is that I’m now happily employed by an American company with American values that hires Americans.
I’M sure Microsoft and the other tech companies in Washington and the Bay Area will lobby to get the policies changed back.
The hiring process has broken down. Apu’s constant calls & e-mails are nothing more than symptom of a broken-down hiring process.
If I were you, I’d put Apu to work for you. Take a look at Apu’s e-mails. Apu cuts and pastes the employer’s job description into his e-mail messages. Once you filter the crap from Apu’s dispatches, you should be able to determine the job and employer from the few remaining e-mail messages. A little searching using Google, Indeed, & Glassdoor should find the job. You may find Apu has stumbled across companies you’ve never heard of before.
I strongly suspect most of Apu’s consistent-in-appearance dispatches come from dice.com.
Your best bet would be to abandon dice.com.
I am getting calls all day long from US-based recruiters for jobs in my area that have appeared out of nowhere. In some cases, the jobs have been posted for 5 months.
The US-based recruiters will tell you it’s a “candidate’s market.” If a US-recruiter tells you this, push back a little bit. Tell them you’ll need “some remote work” to consider the opportunity. You’ll quickly find out the market hasn’t changed from 24 months ago.
In a candidate’s market, you’d see flexibility in employer’s demands. You’d see higher wages, increased vacation, and training being offered to close the deal. Not happening… yet.