[geeks] Job searching and recruiters

[Rick Hamell]

Sometimes companies that you've submitted resumes too will pass them on to
recruiters in return for a discount in their services.

Or - more and more likely, the recruiter has a deal to be the exclusive
recruiter for whatevercompany. They simply enter your resume into their
database and then you start getting hits that way from keywords in your
resume.

The upshot is that you should at least listen to their offers - the bulk of
them are going to be crap, or not even in your field of expertise.

Rick


On 1/25/07 2:32 PM, "Aaron Finley" <aaronfinley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I'm going to be graduating college come May, and I've been job searching.
> 
> I have a question nobody can seem to give me a straight answer on. I
> actually formally updated my resume
> (http://www.arnach.net/public/resume.pdf), and submitted to a variety
> of places to begin the process a week ago.
> 
> Starting with this week, I've been getting a large volume of e-mails
> and several phone calls from "Cindy" or "Melissa" or "Roger" or etc.
> all working for places like "InfoTech" or "ITJOBS.com" or
> "SuperJobs.Com" or "JobsYoudNeverWant.Com". Those aren't, obviously,
> the actual names of the companies who have contacted me, but each
> company claims to have some sort of position open in one of the
> companies they do recruiting for, e.g. for an Oracle DBA, available
> and they want to speak to me. Should I ignore these recruiters? I find
> it highly suspect -- where do they get my resume? The e-mails I am
> getting are not to the address listed on my resume with a few
> exceptions, but they do have my correct phone number. However, I'm
> showing no hits on my resume except from companies I recognize after
> doing an IP lookup, so I'm rather confused. I know it dosen't hurt to
> follow up, but after getting about 10 offers to be an Oracle DBA, I'm
> starting to wonder..
> 
> So, any comments on that, and any criticism on my resume would be wonderful.
> 
> -- Aaron Finley
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