Anti-Recruiters

As you may have guessed - given the current economy situation - there aren't that many recruiters calling. Well, not quite so. They call me to place other candidates, even though I have nothing to do with HR or hiring - I don't even participate in the interviews.

So what's the story?

The company I work for just happen to have couple of IT positions open. My resume indicates that I work for said company. The rest is simple - they call me to get around of HR and to get the direct line of hiring manager.

This morning I got a call from one of such recruiters. She stated that one of her colleagues spoke with me couple of days ago. Wrong move, I don't like when conversation starts with a blatant outright lie. Then lady proceeded to how we're hiring an Oracle DBA (we don't) and she wants to speak to my manager. I stated (which is a company policy, actually) that she has to dial the main number and try her luck with receptionist. The lady on the phone persisted. I declined to talk about anything - again, citing company's policy. Recruiter on the phone kept going on and on how she's not going to disclose my name to my manager - as if he couldn't hear me from two cubicles behind.

After she went on her fifth attempt to extort my manager's phone number I hung up on that pushy and arrogant person.

Now, here comes a bit of double-standards. If I was that candidate, I'd like that my recruiter would knock on every door as many times as possible to get me a job. However, being already at work, the last thing I need is my manager listening to the conversation with recruiter over my shoulder. Especially if I am busy breaking company's policy.

Obviously, the recruiter couldn't care less about me. Even worse, it is in her interest that I would get into trouble - so she could place another of her candidates into my place and make more money. Nothing personal, strictly business. Considering that - I am definitely not cooperating. Again - it's nothing personal. Strictly business.