Got a call today from a young recruiter working for a local agency. She asked to speak to me and said she had a job. She wanted to know whether I am still looking for work.
Then I started to ask the "golden three" questions (location, pay rate, job description).
She said that the job is in the Greater Toronto Area (which is pretty big). I tried to get her to narrow it down (for there are some areas of the GTA where I don't go because of a ridiculously overpriced toll motorway that's involved). She said that before seeing my Word Resume she can only say "Toronto".
Hmm, then I asked about pay rate and she started to give me super-BS about how she won't do that until she sees a Resume. Oh my. I stated my last hourly pay rate which is about double what the average annual salary [in my line of work] in Toronto is. She started quoting from my workopolis profile where I listed "between 75 and 100k" which is a wide range which makes it useless.
I tried to explain to her that she's kind of new in this block and "time=$$" thinking that she gets the idea that she's wasting my time. She stared to blabber about her time being precious too and that she must "follow procedure".
Well, faced with such blatant pigheadedness I said "goodbye" and hung up on her.
Dear Recruiter,
whoever you are, please keep these things in mind:
1. you are annoying people in various ways;
2. being inflexible and trying to have people follow
your script makes you even more annoying;
3. unwillingness to talk about dough makes you look like a conceited stiff as the candidate will have to learn about that
eventually, preferably
before wasting his/her time to go for a face-to-face interview;
4. sometimes the people you call
do know about your profession more than you do.
-ulianov
And the prize goes to K. who inflicted a horrendously formated piece of spam upon me (see below). Note the miss-speleling and the funny looking vertical bars that showed up real nice in my Yahoo mail.
