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[norrahe]

It's the skills and experience timescales they ask you to go through...

"OK, Can you tell me how many year experience you have with the WEB? hmm 4? maybe 5? Shall I just put down 2? The client is building a WEB system it says in the spec but you don’t have WEB on your CV"

"Why don't you phone me back when you read the CV love or go back to hairdressing"

End call.

It's when I get "and you worked at such and such, what do they do and where are they based?"

**** off and stop wasting my time you moron!

[minestrone]

I have noticed a trend that when they then start asking about your experience, they haven't a clue industry wise. As anyone who should be recruiting in your industry will have familiarity with the companies you have worked with.

It's the skills and experience timescales they ask you to go through...

"OK, Can you tell me how many year experience you have with the WEB? hmm 4? maybe 5? Shall I just put down 2? The client is building a WEB system it says in the spec but you don’t have WEB on your CV"

"Why don't you phone me back when you read the CV love or go back to hairdressing"

End call.

[norrahe]

It's a tad difficult to filter out these calls sometime, as the pimps have now taken to ringing with what is a genuine role, they talk through a "spec" and where the role is based and rates.

I have noticed a trend that when they then start asking about your experience, they haven't a clue industry wise. As anyone who should be recruiting in your industry will have familiarity with the companies you have worked with.

The next eejit who tries this will get told where to go.

What's worse is some of my regular pimps are doing this as well, I will get guys that I don't normally deal with from within the company trying to filtch their colleagues roles....

[Turion]

The caller id policy would be set by the company not the individual agent. Most agencies block the caller id. Can't see how not answering a call is to your advantage as it might be genuine. I can tell within seconds if a call is genuine and will terminate it if not.

[expat]

Yep, filtering out "unknown number" calls will guard against all but the most persistent agents.

Many companies show only a switchboard number (I suppose I mean "reception") when someone calls, and quite a lot don't show a number. Even ignoring other possibilities like roaming where some link in the chain fails to pass on the info, that means that a lot of "unknown" calls are not because the caller wishes to hide his number.

If it doesn't happen to you, you're lucky. Most of the calls that I actually want to take are "unknown".

[SantaClaus]

I do not pick up calls where there is no number showing, cannot be arsed talking to them.

Yep, filtering out "unknown number" calls will guard against all but the most persistent agents.

[thunderlizard]

more annoyingly they leave you with a false sense of hope at the end "ok you seem really suitable for the job so I'm going to send your CV across to my client and I'll also drop you an email with my contact details" seems to mean "I don't think you are suitable so the quickest way to close this conversation down is to tell you what you want to hear"

You can't haven't been doing this for long. After a few weeks, the false sense of hope stops happening, and you feel quite relieved when they don't follow it up.

[Spacecadet]

I'm stunned no-one got this awful gag in before me.

We're not all as special as you are

[TykeMerc]

Stop

HAMMER TIME

I'm stunned no-one got this awful gag in before me.

Ok where's my damn coat gone?

[expat]

I do not pick up calls where there is no number showing, cannot be arsed talking to them.

Unfortunately that would eliminate almost all my calls, including from MyCo's other business phone, and my partner! I am in Germany with an O2 business phone, and most caller-ID just doesn't get through.

[minestrone]

I do not pick up calls where there is no number showing, cannot be arsed talking to them.

[expat]

Can pimps please refrain from ringing me and trying to quiz me about where I've worked when it's obvious from their complete ignorance about the industry i've worked in and the companies involved that they are fishing.

Sorry I just had to rant, I've had one too many timewasters on the phone this week.

Perhaps you are too polite? They will take advantage of that. I don't find that an unsolicited call wastes much of my time, I don't allow it to.

In a sense a call from an agency is not ultimately unsolicited, because I have put my contact details out there for people to call me if they have something that might be of interest. If they don't have anything of interest, then I don't waste their time and mine by talking for long; but I remain polite enough that I hope they will call me again.

In the meantime, if they ask things that I don't want to tell them, I don't tell them. I evade a couple of times, and they should take the hint that I will not tell them but am trying not to be rude. If they persist, I will refuse. In the end I will launch into a "polite" sentence announcing my termination of the call, and this will be followed immediately and without fail by the termination of the call.

Never being solicited at all is easy enough to arrange, but not what many want. Being solicited only by those you want is a much more difficult trick, ask any good-looking person.

[suityou01]

Can pimps please refrain from ringing me and trying to quiz me about where I've worked when it's obvious from their complete ignorance about the industry i've worked in and the companies involved that they are fishing.

Sorry I just had to rant, I've had one too many timewasters on the phone this week.

I've had lots of that also. Any more annoyingly they leave you with a false sense of hope at the end "ok you seem really suitable for the job so I'm going to send your CV across to my client and I'll also drop you an email with my contact details" seems to mean "I don't think you are suitable so the quickest way to close this conversation down is to tell you what you want to hear"

[Bear]

Maybe we need a preference phone service for pimps?

Or a preferably don't phone service

[BrilloPad]

Maybe we need a preference phone service for pimps?