As I am promoting this web site, I see a lot of recruiters ranting and bragging how they are so cool and good, and how their clients are all bad and making plenty of mistakes. Even if only half of this is true, I still don’t get how come I still get:

• people with bad English skills, guys who can’t even spell out simple 4-letter word VLAD that happens to be my name. This is not to mention guys calling directly from India and trying to fix me up with some job in New York
• recruiters, who are trying to lure me into sending my resume to them with some made up position that only partially matches my skills, but promising good things in the future. Usually, I never hear from them again…
• no work on if and when my resume have been submitted (I had to go through 4 recruiters who solicited a job to me, and only 4th had actually submitted my resume. Or so I hope.)
• no feedback after phone interview
• no feedback after face-to-face interview
• mass e-mails that have little or no relevancy to my skills, sometimes – sent 2 or 3 times
• attempts to tailor my skills to what your client wants
• attempts to forbid me from soliciting other job opportunities and services of other recruiters while at the same time doing little or nothing for my job search;

and last but not least – calling me at 8:01am. If you are on some kind of Prozak, heavy caffeine energy drink or some other substance – doesn’t mean I share your addiction. Call me around lunch time. If you don’t think I am important enough for you to call around lunch time – don’t call me at all, you’re not the only recruiter in town.

Feel free to add more!