A note to headhunters
Posted by Sajith M on Feb 13th, 2007
2007
Feb 13
If you are a headhunter (or a job consultant), or anyone else who plans to call me to tell me that you found my resume to be a perfect match for one of your clients, please read this first.
- If you search Monster for a keyword, and send a mail to every single soul whose resume happens to have that keyword, you are spamming people. Just because I have worked on an ASP.NET web application that talks to DB2 server does not mean that I have the ability or the inclination pursue a career as a DB2 administrator.
- If you can’t tell me the name of the company you are recruiting for, you might as well not bother to email me. Making up my mind on if I want to work for “a large US based MNC” (while not knowing which company is in question here) is not something I like to do
- If your mail/call starts with “we found your resume to be a perfect match for …”, don’t ask me things that are already there in the resume. I expect you to have gone through the profile/resume.
- If my resume says that I am not willing to relocate, please don’t talk about opportunities that require me to relocate.
This is not to say that every single person whom I have met has been like this. I have interacted with people like Anamika from Vshreyas, Pallavi and Sreedevi from Peepal, and a few others who are good at the match-making game; and it has been a pleasure – may their tribe increase :-)
Posted under: Thoughts
Tagged with: headhunter, job consultant, resume
February 13th, 2007 at 21:58:52
You can consider it spam, especially when even I, a college student, frequently get these ridiculous emails. I applied for a part time job, but they call me for recruitment into big time posts.
February 14th, 2007 at 13:58:45
point #3 is so true. if they mailed you, they must have looked at your resume (via a bot or whatever). why ask for it again then !?
February 17th, 2007 at 23:43:02
So very true.
I have to fend off a large number of emails like this every day, the only option being to go to the head-hunting portal and try to block these guys, and never know whether you are successful.