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Calls of No Return
One of the funny things about recruiters (not those located in India, that’s whole another story) is when the number they are calling from is blocked. So he/she calls, but you can’t pick up the phone. Maybe you’re on another line. Maybe you don’t want to break it to your environment that you’re looking for a job. Or you just weren’t fast enough to dig your phone from the deepness of your pockets or your bag. So recruiter leaves you a voicemail message.
Which gets garbled. Or he/she didn’t enunciate enough and their phone number gets mumbled out, and you can’t make a number or two in the whole sequence. Or they are calling you during their lunch. Or your phone company makes it a half-hour task to retrieve your voicemail (which is mostly the case with American providers).
This is where that caller ID comes in handy. Usually, if I miss someone’s call I just double-tap phone button and voila! – I am calling back last incoming number.
Additionally, when I see “Private” or “Unknown” on a caller ID screen, my first thought is that it’s that annoying guy from India who’s looking for outsourced projects and calls me every week. He doesn’t speak English very well, so he doesn’t quite get the message of “NO!”. It could also be some brave-ass marketeer cold-calling. Or someone who doesn’t want me to call him back.
Now, if you are recruiter – why would you hide your phone number? Do you get harrassed? Do you get calls from marketeers or candidates? What’s your reasons?
Personally, I don’t see any.
Dominick F. from Friedman Williams Group
Good afternoon.
Sorry to interrupt your busy day; I was wondering if you could help me out or perhaps we can help each other? Do you know of anyone looking for a new job opportunity? I happen to have one outstanding %Position title and text follows%
Berman Larson Kane
This Berman Larson Kane staffing company still puzzles me. In all honesty I don’t remember ever talking to anyone from their staff. Most likely I had a stupidity to respond to one of their e-mails or some job offer that turned out to be an e-mail trap. Berman Larson Kane keeps sending me some correspondence once every few days, which I religiously mark as spam. Eventually, all my e-mail clients start treating their e-mails as spam and we settle. However, after some time either I upgrade a PC or start using another e-mail client, or something else happens – and the name Berman Larson Kane pops up again.
If you do a simple Google search you will find plenty of their job postings, so it’s still a mystery to me as to why this company would not take my e-mail off their can-spam list and start sending me some real jobs. Since their web site still looks like it was developed back in 1992, I guess they just have no idea how to do it.
In case you have a patience and have half hour to spare you can also wait and check out company’s blog. Not much insight, but it will give you an idea of the level of professionalism of this company.
Berman Larson Kane
Phone: 800.640.0126
Fax: 800.748.5351
Email: jobs@jobsbl.com
Mailing address is:
Berman Larson Kane
12 Route 17 North, Suite 209
Paramus, New Jersey 07652