venting)) Recruiting Story (was: question about recruiters (plus a little venting))

[Glen Warner <gdwarner -at- ricochet -dot- net>]

"John Prince" <JPrince -at- e-talkcorp -dot- com> wrote:
 
> I have a question about recruiters that I hope some of you can 
answer.
> 
> I am thinking about switching positions. I put my resume on the
> monsterboard.com and am starting to think it was a BIG mistake.

(*snip*)
 
> My question: does anyone have some savvy ways to deal with 
recruiters. 

(*snip*)

Alas, I don't have an answer for you, but the answers you receieved 
seem good enough ... but I wanted to share something weird that 
happened to me recently.

I was looking at one of the big job boards and I found a position in 
my area for a tech writer with Mac experience.  They wanted 
HyperCard, AppleScript (I'm no ninja in these, but I can get by), and 
TCP/IP.

Since I wasn't registered with this particular job board, I called the 
company myself, explained who I was and why I was calling.

The fellow that answered the phone told me something I found quite 
puzzling (and which explains this note):  He hadn't placed an ad.  Not 
only had he not placed an ad (his company was a strictly one-man 
operation, and he was Da Man), but he hadn't heard of the job board 
that I got his number from.

I apologized ... and gave him the URL for him to look at the listing 
himself.

I guess the job board folk were trolling for resumes, or something.  
Sure, it could be an honest mistake, but advertising a job requiring 
Mac skills and "accidentally" using the "wrong number" of a Mac shop 
-- the mind wobbles :o) at the odds of that happening --!

> Forgive my rant - but I do feel better.  ;-)

Hey, you're right!  So do I! :o)  ... but it's still weird --!  Has 
this ever happened to anyone ...?

--gdw
 
> -jp

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