Reasons To Blacklist Recruiters
Throughout my time as a programmer I have had many dealings with recruiters and become a expert at dealing with them. Sometimes some of those recruiters would step out of bounds to what I would consider reasonable. This unreasonable behavior has caused me to not do business with them. I will discuss some of the reasons to blacklist a given recruiter.
- Calling At My Employer’s Phone: There are some recruiters that attempt to navigate a companies directory and solicit on your office extension. This is totally the most unethical thing a company can do. If you’re in a open office would you want your boss/coworkers to hear you talking about other opportunities? Even if I was looking I would not want anyone inside my company knowing. Nor would I want to even give my employer the slightest idea I was looking. This alone has the potential to put your job in jeopardy.
- Calling Too Much: Why are you calling me every week? I’ve had recruiters call me every week pushing the same opportunities I’m not interested in. Likewise if your leaving 2-3 messages every week for a month that’s too much. Can you get the hint I don’t have time to return the call?
- Emailing Me At My Company’s Address: This is along the same lines as calling on you companies phone number. Why are you emailing me on my companies address and where did you get this information? I don’t give out my work email simply because I don’t want to be bothered at that address. Recruiters that do that make companies the read employees email think they are scoping out the competition even when they aren’t.
- Recruiter Is Offshore: I’m a proud supporter of the US economy. Why am I going to do business with a recruiters in another country? I’m not going to settle for a low pay rate when I can do business with a US recruiter and get a fair market rate for my work.
The reasons above are just some of the many reasons to blacklist recruiters.
Monday, November 21st, 2011