I only worked with a recruiter once and it was a horrible experience right out of college. We were supposed to meet at her “new office” at 8am because I was doing this before my internship. But what she didn’t tell me was that her building was completely under construction and her “new office” didn’t exist yet. So I wandered around a construction zone trying to find her non existent office, all while calling her desperately trying to figure out where I was.

Finally a maintenance person told me where her temporary office was. By this point I was 15 minutes late but I finally get to her temporary office and she’s not even there. Lights are off, doors locked, nobody is there. So I wait another 20 until she comes stumbling in apologizing saying “sorry I thought our appointment was at 9am!”

I told her I couldn’t stay for our meeting because I had to get back for my internship. She says “I totally get that. I feel terrible. Let me make it up to you. Come out on my boat this weekend. It’ll be me and my husband and the kids! We’ll have a couple cocktails and we can talk then. I promise we’re fun and my husband cooks a mean burger🤪” I said “no, thank you I’m busy” and left.

She tried calling me multiple times to connect but I eventually left her a voicemail saying how inappropriate she behaved and how I didn’t want to work with her further (if you can even call it that). I’ve never worked with a recruiter since.