My favorite recruiter story: In summer 2008, I was looking for work. At one point, I saw a job listing at The Hive [1], calling for Erlang. I don't have much

My favorite recruiter story: In summer 2008, I was looking for work. At one point, I saw a job listing at The Hive [1], calling for Erlang. I don't have much Erlang experience (one proof-of-concept DNS server), but it's on my résumé. I applied, just in case. Well. It turned out that, when you Googled "erlang resume", I was on the third page. Over the next month or so, I heard from about 20 bottom-feeder recruiters, with that same job. Most of them were trying to claim that the job was with a client of theirs, but none of them knew anything that wasn't in the listing on Dice. It got to the point where my wife could recognize a new one on the phone, even if they didn't say "Erlang" to her. (Mind you, I've also had good experiences with recruiters. But "he wasn't a fool" doesn't make as good a story.) [1] http://www.thehive.com/ http://www.thehive.com/