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What amazes me about a great deal of the recruiters I've dealt with is their inability to do basic word-matching. Recruiter "I have a great role for you as a R
by TomNomNom 15y ago
What amazes me about a great deal of the recruiters I've dealt with is their inability to do basic word-matching.
Recruiter "I have a great role for you as a Ruby developer!"
Me: "Do you have a copy of my CV?"
Recruiter: "Yes indeed, I have it on my screen right now!"
The word "Ruby" does not appear on my CV, at all. This has happened to me more times than I can remember; with Ruby, C++, C# and a whole bunch of other things not mentioned anywhere on my CV.
You don't even need to have heard of a technology (never-mind understand it) to narrow candidates down more than this.
- hga 15y agoIndeed. I've been out of the job market since 2004 and today after a (thankfully) long dry spell I got a "cold email" asking about a .NET position. I was working on UNIX(TM) when .NET came to be and therefore it's never ever been on any of the resumes I left behind. Then again, since wherever resumes of mine that are still floating around are so old, a shot in the dark like this has a higher chance of working than your situation, where I assume your resume is reasonably up to date.
- briancurtin 15y agoA good percentage of the contact I get from recruiters is for Django jobs, for which I have zero experience to offer. "Hey I noticed you have a lot of Django experience, I have a great role for you!"...yeah, actually not, I have never even installed Django, but I do have a lot of Python experience. I guess this is slightly better than what you're seeing since they're at least in the ballpark, but still horribly annoying. It just gets marked as spam for me.