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I get lots of calls from similar recruiters, but had I been in this guys position the call would have gone like this: RECRUITER: Oh hi Matthew, my name's ### a
by Buttons840 13y ago
I get lots of calls from similar recruiters, but had I been in this guys position the call would have gone like this:
RECRUITER: Oh hi Matthew, my name's ### and I'm calling from ### with regard to an exciting opportunity that's come up in London for a Senior Developer, are you interested?
ME: Where is this job located?
RECRUITER: [Says something that translates to] 4 hours away.
ME: Thanks for contacting me, but I'm happy with my current job and I don't want to relocate right now.
RECRUITER: [In the face to two good excuses the recruiter says] Ok, you have a good day.
ME: You too.
More pleasant for all involved.
- potatolicious 13y agoYeah, I go one step further - if I ever get cold-called by a recruiter I stop them mid-sentence and tell them that I do not take cold calls, and that they are welcome to email me. If they try to keep talking I hang up. Most recruiter contacts are woefully far from anything that might even remotely interest me - neither I nor the recruiter should be wasting 10 minutes of our lives to find this out.
- d23 13y ago> RECRUITER: [In the face to two good excuses the recruiter says] Ok, you have a good day. Have you ever talked to a recruiter? In my experience they never give up that easily. We had one tell us they had "plenty of developers to offer," more than they knew what to do with. After we said we weren't interested, he then immediately turn around and ask if we knew any developers looking for a job, because they had plenty of job openings they couldn't fill. Right...