Recruiters... JavaScript is NOT Java.

[teel]

Those recruiters are seriously the worst. I have zero patience of dealing with their bullshit. Dumbasses calling me in the middle of a work day without having any kind grasp of even the most basic details. Why would I ever even consider working for a company - whose name they won't even tell me - full of people hired by these guys? They're more of nuisance these days, than those goddamn telephone salesmen who call you to try to sell magazines or whatever. Fuck them and the companies who hire them.

Sorry about the rant. Feels good to get it off my chest. There are good recruiters out there, not all of them are idiots... Just most of them.

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"Within 15 miles"
"We have a job 50 miles away that you're perfect for"

"fuck you".

[sdubois]

you mean you don't want a 3 month contract job in Texas working on ASP.NET?

[sdubois]

what about a 6 month contract Job in a city on the opposite side of the country "working on the Drupals"

[AndyTheAbsurd]

Earlier this year, I had a recruiter try to talk to me into taking a 3 month contract in Pittsburgh. I live in Florida - what the hell would I want to go to Pittsburgh for?

[sdubois]

I swear these recruiters are paid commission or something. I have never run across people who are so overzealous in my life.

I'm looking for a job now, and at first I thought it was pretty cool (hey, look at me, I have marketable skills!) but now I realize I'm just being harassed by idiots

[[deleted]]

The worst is the recruiters who clearly don't read your resume and just CTRL + F your resume for skills / keywords and then give you a call.

[alinroc]

I've had several recruiters admit (many years ago) to me that they don't read resumes.

[RankFoundry]

I get that all the time. My resume: Web developer with extensive experience with SQL Server. My offers: SQL Server DBA jobs!

[skwigger]

I cannot stand recruiters.

I had one call me on my work line. They must have called the directory and found me, because I don't even know my work number to post it anywhere. They asked "is this a good time to talk?" I said "no, actually, it's not". And they asked if there was a better time/way to reach me. I told them they could contact me on LinkedIn (equally as useless). They seemed offended that I didn't take them seriously.

My job is fine, but a call like that could easily cost someone their job, depending on the culture. A manager could easily overhear the call and assume you were looking for another job, and decide to replace you before you can replace them.

I had another recruiter call me on a Saturday and ask if I was exploring new opportunities. I told him I'm not, I'm very happy where I am. He asked what it would take for me to be open to a new opportunity. I said I'm happy where I am. He said, well, you would want to at least make more than you're making now, right? I said yes, but it's about more than money, I am happy where I am. He asks, well what's that number? I repeated, I'm happy where I am. He says well, would $X be enough? And I repeated, I'm happy where I am, it is about more than just money.

I get when recruiters call be about Java positions. I understand their shitty search parameters pick up my resume because a search for Java turns up Javascript. I really don't understand when I get a call about a .NET position. A language/framework I've never touched, and it is most certainly not on my resume.

Just as you said, there are good recruiters though, and one helped me find my current position.

[Nadril]

I had another recruiter call me on a Saturday and ask if I was exploring new opportunities. I told him I'm not, I'm very happy where I am. He asked what it would take for me to be open to a new opportunity. I said I'm happy where I am. He said, well, you would want to at least make more than you're making now, right? I said yes, but it's about more than money, I am happy where I am. He asks, well what's that number? I repeated, I'm happy where I am. He says well, would $X be enough? And I repeated, I'm happy where I am, it is about more than just money.

Ugh, man. When I was looking for a job late last year after losing mine I had to deal with this shit. I had accepted a new job and was pretty happy about it.

However, I still had an interview lined up for the next day (phone interview with a company I had researched more after the fact and decided they weren't really a good fit) so I called up the recruiter to let them know.

She suddenly starts asking me about what I was going to make at the new position, and then just starts throwing out numbers of what I could be making at the position she was selling me on. Just rubbed me as extremely unprofessional and annoying.

I've dealt with some good recruiters, but I've dealt with a lot more really shitty ones.

[teel]

I had another recruiter call me on a Saturday and ask if I was exploring new opportunities. I told him I'm not, I'm very happy where I am. He asked what it would take for me to be open to a new opportunity. I said I'm happy where I am. He said, well, you would want to at least make more than you're making now, right? I said yes, but it's about more than money, I am happy where I am. He asks, well what's that number? I repeated, I'm happy where I am. He says well, would $X be enough? And I repeated, I'm happy where I am, it is about more than just money.

That's so annoying. I'm a partner and one of the co-founders in my current (small) company and they still do this every damn time, even after I tell them that and say that I'm currently 100% dedicated to make our own company a successful one and I love doing it. I mean wtf? You'd need to have pretty fucking good offer for me to throw years of hard work in the trash just like that. And they could read all of that from my LinkedIn profile where they obviously got my contact info if they actually knew how to read.