a recruiter conversation
Moderately edited transcript of me talking to my housemate about some recruiter interactions. Recorded by Voice Recorder on the phone, transcribed by whisper (which uses GPU to do speech to text) and edited to get rid of redundance and add a little bit here and there
So, as you know, I’m in the middle of trying to find a new job
And so, in addition to the usual occasional phone calls that I get from recruiters, every so often, my phone lights up from a bunch of recruiters who all think that I should go and work at Micron. It’s happened a couple weeks ago, and I got somebody here whose diction is difficult to follow.
And he wouldn’t tell me about it, about the position, and he wanted to lab technician they could do, and be in the blah, blah, blah, blah, do test, you know, you do look at the results of the tests, you know, contact customers as needed, blah, blah, blah, blah, can you take a look at this?
they send me the job requirements, and I look at them. I can tell that it’s not my old position, or in my old group, or anything like my old group, or not even the group that I was trying to get a job with, that was next to my old group, that would have had me being in the GEL group
Rather than respond to him, I called my friend Amanda, who works for a different recruiter. I don’t have to struggle to understand what she says to me when she speaks for some reason. I called her twice, sent her an email, and the next day or so, I sent her a text. I got a response to the text within minutes, and it turns out, yeah, it’s for another group that’s run by a guy whose name is spelled F-U-X-I-N-G. It’s pronounced Fusheeng, but as you can imagine, that’s not the first word that comes to your mind when you see his name on an email, or a name plate outside of a cubicle.
Basically they’re all getting the same requisition, submitted it about the same time, and just because he’s the one who called me, doesn’t mean he’s the one who I have to go with. He would like me to, he sent me a note wanting me to sign it and say that they would exclusively be representing for me in this job, which I ignored.
She did say she’d check it out.
But anyways, late last week, I started getting some pings about another job. I got a ping from a guy whose name is Suhel, that he has a lab technician job in Boulder.
Depending on where it is in Boulder, I could take the bus, and I wouldn’t mind taking a bus to Boulder, to and from Boulder every day. He responds on Saturday wanting to know if there’s a time that we could talk on Monday, and I end up going, well, you know, kind of working on Monday, but we could probably talk it, two o’clock in your time, noon mine, (I looked, it turns out, area 203 is in Connecticut, a lot of these people in other parts of the world, that’s not unusual.)
So I’m at work on Monday, and I tell my boss that I’m going to be getting a phone call at about noon. She says, okay, give the patrol phone to Brian.
At 12 o’clock, I’m sitting there with my phone next to me. At five after 12, it had not yet rung, so I call him.
I get someone on the phone, not Suhel. No, so he’s not here. He’s on the break. I say, do you expect him back five minutes, 15 minutes? Oh, probably 20 minutes.
At this point, that’s going to be 25 after 12, my lunch is 30 minutes, such as it is. You don’t exactly get lunches on this job. We have an exactly eight-hour long shift, and we are supposed to fit our breaks and lunches in as we can, you know, being aware that even if we’re on lunch, we may be called service depending on what’s happening. Yes. By 12:30, he hadn’t called.
I get another email. Can we talk tomorrow? I ignore it at first because by this time, I have three other head hunters who are looking for a lab technician in Boulder. Sidebar on them: I sent them copies of my resume, and I tried calling them while I was on the break, and they were hilarious. In one case, I get the automated phone answering thing, and it says, if you have the extension of the person you want to call, type it now, or press star, to talk to an operator.
The funny thing about the app that I use on my phone to read emails: If you have a picture in your mail signature, it takes the rest of the writing, gets turned into a two-column vertical thing that is kind of hard to read. And at first, I thought that the person’s extension was 63, and so I typed 63, nothing. I hit pound sign and get a busy signal.
Call it again. Type star drops the call immediately.
I don’t know how these places make any money if you can’t call them.
I end up sending an email response to this person whose name is something like Shahini me or something. I told her in the email that I wasn’t able to get through to her on the phone system.
I tried calling the other one or two, didn’t get a hold of any of them, any better. i
Tuesday morning, I respond to Shahel let’s try and have it be at 1130 by my time, 1:30 your time. By the way, it’s kind of unprofessional, I said, very rude, to make an appointment with somebody and then stand them up.
Did I mention that this guy’s title on his initial email was junior recruiter? Junior fits. His response: is it okay for me to call you at two? I respond, sure, I think I can manage two.
He calls me at the appointed time and starts asking me about my experience. Do I have 10 years experience? , I said, I have 45. Do you have experience with Apple? In a couple of different jobs, it’s been a few years since then, I’ve had a couple of different job experiences where I was the person who supported Apple. He asks me, have I ever worked for Apple? And I say, no, I haven’t worked for Apple.
He says “We’re looking for someone who’s worked for Apple for at least six months. Oh, let me go check on some things and I’ll be back in touch.” I think that’s the last I’ve heard of it. So that was fun.
So that’s the story of my recent job search adventures that I’ve had in the last couple of days. I have to check to see if he did actually respond. And if he did actually send me another note, for all I know he did.
Nope, nothing in my phone. That’s all I get from him. Not very professional.
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