Sometimes Clients Can Be Just as Annoying...

So we had set up 4 interviews this week for a couple of great candidates.

What happened?

Once client overslept and was 45 minutes late for the interview.

Another client forgot and kept our candidates waiting in a lobby for over an hour.

Must be the full moon.

More later...

Woodchipper? Say what?

Ring. Ring. "Hello, Consulting Company, Senior Recruiter speaking, how can I help you?"

"Uh, yeah. I'm having trouble with a wood-chipper I just bought. Can you send a consultant over?"

(Laughs)"Uh...wood-chipper? Sorry sir, we're an information technology company".

"A what company? Can you send someone or not?"

"Sorry sir, wood chipper maintenance is not one of our offerings."

"Oh, I got your number from the yellow pages...sorry."


Well, that was in interesting phone call. I'm a bit flummoxed as to exactly how this person found us in the yellow pages and thought we could help him out with that wood-chipper!

Good stuff though.

Thank God today is Friday!

Liars, Cheaters, and Scoundrels

If you have a felony conviction, or a few dozen, there are jobs where your charge is not directly relevant to the position, and by all means, you should be able to work. You know what jobs you shouldn't apply for. Mr. multiple counts of possessing child pornography....I will not be placing you at a hospital with children. Please don't even attempt to apply to my job when you know it is not a good match. I will find your history and I will tell you "absolutely not" as I did yesterday.
Mr. multiple counts of forgery and theft...same goes for you. I can't believe you thought my background check wouldn't catch your felony convictions. I told you three times that this position required a criminal background check and you told me three times that you had no felony convictions. You think crossing a state line will obscure your conviction?
Fun day yesterday.
Should go ahead and warn those who enjoy an occasional or frequent illicit drug....when we have a position requiring pre-employment drug screening, that drug use WILL show up. Please don't waste my time with your stories of glaucoma at 30. My MRO doctor will check your legitimate prescriptions and know if you're as stoned as the villan in the courtyard.

E-Mail Snippet of The Day

In the course of my day I receive many emails from third party companies offering their candidates for my open job orders. It annoys me greatly since I usually include text in my job ads specifically requesting that third party companies do not contact me.

Today I received a special email from a company that I've never dealt with. The subject line read:

Subject: FILL MY HOT OPENING- Oracle SCM - technical in Denver CO for 3 Month Extendable


Now, this email is special. FILL MY HOT OPENING. What? Did this come from a porn site? Nope. Though it served to get my attention and entertain the whole office, it certainly doesn't encourage me to do business with you.

Come on guys, you can do better!

Thanks for the laughs.

How about listening to your voice mail messages?

What is it about cell phone caller ID that makes people do stupid things? Is it really too hard to actually listen to your voice mail before blindly calling back the number of our office and blurting out "Yeah, someone called me from this number?"

Oh! Yeah! I know just who called you! Even though I don't know who the hell you are. We have multiple recruiters making many calls per day.

You really must be special to think that what you just did endears you to those attempting to employ you. Great first impression, super attention to detail and excellent planning skills.

But thanks, I really enjoy having to ask who you are, and then talking to everyone in the office to find out who actually called you. You wasted my time. NO JOB FOR YOU!

Un-freaking believable

Well folks, the Senior Recruiter has had a tough day. The kind of day that makes you want to stare solemnly into your cocktail and question the intelligence of your fellow man.

I interviewed a high level technology professional today; an encounter that left me speechless.

He showed up right on time and looked the part. After introducing ourselves, he followed me into the elevator to descend two floors to our secondary conference room.

At that point, he opened his mouth and it was all over in just six seconds. You see, He referred his boss with the ultra-pleasant term "Chink". As if that wasn't enough, He followed that incredibly bright comment with "She works me like a Hebrew slave, I hate her"

Well isn't that just special. We didn't even get to the conference room before I decided that you were a complete idiot. I almost expected, as an encore, you'd don a crisp set of white robes and hood. Or perhaps you'd wear black face and do a little dance? Meh.

As for the rest of the interview, I learned that you had been working at a convenience store full time for a bit, yet your resume listed no time period where you could fit that in. Liar.

How could I possibly trust anything else on your resume?

You discussed, at length, some hideous domestic problem that I probably wouldn't even talk about with a close friend.

Thank you so much for your candor, sir. Don't call us, we won't call you.

You Bailed, You Failed.

I interviewed you, I checked your references. You were ready to go.

I scheduled an interview for you at the client site.

I called you two hours before your interview to coach you a bit and learned that...You forgot it was at 10:00am! You thought, even though I sent you two e-mail confirmations, that it was at 3:00! As if that's not bad enough, you then told me you were convinced that it was a phone interview!

Were you high? Did you hear voices in your head? You even had the nerve to ask me if I could re-schedule the client interview for you. Yeah, right. That's gonna happen. Oops, I deleted you from my database...

Total Failure.