Question:
Please submit your resume for immediate consideration.
Answer:
-I guess you're looking for people with the telepathic ability to read your
mind, or clairvoyant to know the requirements.
But wouldn't they have known about the job even before you posted...?
-It's a technique the head hunters are using recently.
Post a vague description to elicit resume submissions.
Usually they ask for a resume in exchange for the full job description.
I like to have the opportunity to customize my resume for each job,
highlighting experience and skills that are pertainant to the position. I
got suckered recently, submitting my resume to one of these headhunters for
a job function that I have experience. I asked for the full job
specification. I did not receive it. So I sent a note explaining that I
would like it so I could modify my resume to draw out the applicable skills
and experience.
I don't get the job spec, but a note asking me to fully detail my ITIL
experience. Well I must say that I have not worked for a company that
implemented the defaco standard and don't have experience with ITIL
foundation or practices. That would be the key skill set required for that
job. Forget the fact that I have experience in many of the best practices
that ITIL is built upon, I don't have the qualifications!
Now why would a recruiter omit the key skillset required for the job, but
accept resumes based on the job function? Would not it generate mass resume
submision that don't meet the qualifications? Is it a new technique to feed
those resume databases, sucking in professionals through gross
misrepresentations?
Does anybody think that recruiters should be regulated and penalized for
unfair business practices?
You know I am beginning to think you have more chance responding to those
make money fast schemes and MLM schemes than you do at getting an interview
with a company using a recruiter.
I would suggest just NOT responding to vague job descriptions. Period.
