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I had a similar situation. I'd been offered a contract that I simply
was not interested in. I'd interviewed, and it was horribly clear that
the project manager had NO clue (she spent at least 20 minutes of the
interview talking about how each person would be responsible for the
group's birthdays for a month - decorating cubes, buying eats, etc. -
what that had to do with the job I'll never know). Well, the recruiter
would NOT take no for an answer "but they LOVED you in the interview!"
Great - still don't want the job. So I finally said I'll take it, but
only if...and gave him a list, starting with a guaranteed 1-yr contract,
$/hr that was really high, paid holidays, 3-wk vacation AND medical,
etc. For some reason, I never heard from him again...
Clare L. Turner
Technical Writer
Redflex Traffic Systems, Inc.
15020 N. 74th Street
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
480.607.3583
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Behalf Of Melissa Nelson
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 9:06 AM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: re: Recruiters without clues
This reminds me of a recruiter who kept calling me last summer for a job
with a commute I simply did not want. No matter how many times I told
him
that he kept calling, finally he asked me what it would take for me to
make
the commute and I told him "a gazillion dollars an hour" and that if he
could get me that...let me know. He never called again *shrug* guess he
could not get me that gazillion. :)
Melissa
>From: "Sean Hower" <hokumhome -at- FREEHOMEPAGE -dot- COM>
>Reply-To: hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com
>To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
>Subject: re: Recruiters without clues
>Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:41:42 -0800 (PST)
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>Arroxane wrote:
>Would you have responded to the recruiter? If so, how? Moreover, am I
>over-reacting?
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>I probably would have said something like "I'm looking into other
>opportunities right now, but thank you."
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>This doesn't bother me as much as when a recruiter doesn't understand
why I
>can't commute from Sacramento to San Diego. I mean, can it be that
>difficult to look at a map?
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>But hey, at least they're calling!
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