Poll of the Day > Damn, not only was I banned from a recruiting office, I made another enemy 2day

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TL;DR Don't ignore recruiters, even if they fuck up big time because it will bite you in the ass


Long story short, a couple of months ago (around May) I emailed a recruiter looking for a job. They gave me the dumbest advice which was to delete every single job I had on my resume except my current one. I told him that was god awful advice and his words were "well you're not gonna get the job you want with those cooking jobs"

I told him (in a professional manner) to fuck off and that was terrible recruiting. Knowing he fucked up he tried to contact me via email apologizing but I ignored it. THEN his supervisor contacted me and I told him the story. He apologized and offered to help, I declined that shit

A day later I receive an email from the original guy saying I was blacklisted on their email list so now their whole office sees me as a bad guy

Last week I get an email from someone who works at the SAME EXACT OFFICE offering to help me. She was nice, so I listened and sure enough she had decent jobs. However, she ghosted me

Today I received an interview invite from a well known company (think car rentals). I was actually excited to get a reply from them but sure enough, I remember her emailing me a couple of months ago switching the job location from Massachusetts to New Hampshire, which is an hour drive away. I ignored her after the obvious flub

Now realizing why the person hasn't gotten back to me about an interview date, I remembered she was the exact person who I ignored because of the state mix up

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Nice
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u deserved it
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darcandkharg31 posted...

u deserved it

Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooow??????
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Get in contact with the boss guy that you talked to.

Also, stop ignoring people. Even a simple "no thanks" Is better than nothing
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mastermix3000 posted...

Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooow??????

ur salty ass keeps antagonizing people
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mastermix3000 posted...

Long story short, a couple of months ago (around May) I emailed a recruiter looking for a job. They gave me the dumbest advice which was to delete every single job I had on my resume except my current one. I told him that was god awful advice and his words were "well you're not gonna get the job you want with those cooking jobs"

It's actually not terrible advice since employers often only care about *relevant* experience and assume that you've done non-career stuff to pay bills in between.

mastermix3000 posted...

I told him (in a professional manner) to fuck off and that was terrible recruiting. Knowing he fucked up he tried to contact me via email apologizing but I ignored it. THEN his supervisor contacted me and I told him the story. He apologized and offered to help, I declined that shit

A day later I receive an email from the original guy saying I was blacklisted on their email list so now their whole office sees me as a bad guy

While it's a dumb, impulsive move, I've never met a recruiter worth a shit so it probably doesn't matter (well, unless you're going for something very low-end, like customer service or telemarketing)

mastermix3000 posted...

Last week I get an email from someone who works at the SAME EXACT OFFICE offering to help me. She was nice, so I listened and sure enough she had decent jobs. However, she ghosted me

Today I received an interview invite from a well known company (think car rentals). I was actually excited to get a reply from them but sure enough, I remember her emailing me a couple of months ago switching the job location from Massachusetts to New Hampshire, which is an hour drive away. I ignored her after the obvious flub

Now realizing why the person hasn't gotten back to me about an interview date, I remembered she was the exact person who I ignored originally

Wait, I'm mixed up. You mean the person at the rental company used to be recruiter at the other company? Or do you mean she was the first person you talked to? At any rate, if you were blacklisted at the agency, an individual employee not involved in the incident probably wouldn't remember it.
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Zeus posted...

Wait, I'm mixed up. You mean the person at the rental company used to be recruiter at the other company? Or do you mean she was the first person you talked to? At any rate, if you were blacklisted at the agency, an individual employee not involved in the incident probably wouldn't remember it.

The first one lady was from the recruiting place I was banned from

Car rental - Completely different recruiter, she worked for the car rental place, not a recruiting/staffing agency. She reached out after I inquired, then switched locales. I was like "that's quite a big difference" and then said no thanks and nothing else

Zeus posted...

It's actually not terrible advice since employers often only care about *relevant* experience and assume that you've done non-career stuff to pay bills in between.

So erase 7 years of non career stuff, which included a supervisory role??? Hope you start to see why i was like "lol"
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Sounds like an incompetent staffing agency
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mastermix3000

Long story short, a couple of months ago (around May) I emailed a recruiter looking for a job. They gave me the dumbest advice which was to delete every single job I had on my resume except my current one. I told him that was god awful advice and his words were "well you're not gonna get the job you want with those cooking jobs"

I mean he isn't entirely wrong, when I look at someone's resume I am not paying attention to the 2 years you worked at McDonald's in high school, I care about what relevant work experience you have. Even if you are entry level I would want to know more about relevant school work and projects.

Plus they always say to only include the last 5 years in your resume, any more then that can make you seem older then you want to be portrayed.
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mastermix3000 posted...

Zeus posted...

It's actually not terrible advice since employers often only care about *relevant* experience and assume that you've done non-career stuff to pay bills in between.

So erase 7 years of non career stuff, which included a supervisory role??? Hope you start to see why i was like "lol"

Depends on your current job and what you're going for. If nothing from your non-career work is transferrable, you might be better off taking your graduation date off your resume and erasing the older entries so they think that was your first job out of college. However, if you're going for a supervisor position at some new company and you have supervisory experience from an old position, it may be worth noting the older job despite the non-relevant industry. In general, erasing 7 years *can* be a bit iffier so... idk

JOExHIGASHI posted...

Sounds like an incompetent staffing agency

Like there's any other kind?
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Sounds like a he said she said type argument and without knowing the other side who knows who is in the wrong. That being said, don't burn your bridges. If someone is treating you like shit, bite your tongue and move on especially when it's a recruitment office and they are helping you find a job.
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Zeus posted...

JOExHIGASHI posted...

Sounds like an incompetent staffing agency

Like there's any other kind?

I mean incompetent compared to others. I never had a staffing agency tell me to leave off 7 years of experience unless tc is older than i think and the 7 years is his first 7 years of work experience.
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Jiggy101011 posted...

Sounds like a he said she said type argument and without knowing the other side who knows who is in the wrong. That being said, don't burn your bridges. If someone is treating you like s***, bite your tongue and move on especially when it's a recruitment office and they are helping you find a job.

Except it's not he said/she said crap, this is exactly what transpired and it's obvious both parties (me and the staffing agency) were at fault a bit, but I'm going to no doubt hold the staffing agency accountable for giving absurd advice

Picture this:

You graduate out of college working jobs where you eventually move up and manage other people. Not necessarily people in your same age group fyi

You get your first "grown up job" aka career. If a recruiter told me to erase all the crap I worked for before the career, I am going to laugh. I actually hope nobody follows that advice

Playing devil's advocate, I would've suggested (if I were to even go slightly on that route) focus more on the career even though you've clearly been there shorter than the other jobs and emphasize on only the key responsibilities from your college jobs that compliment your career. That means around 4-5 (maybe 6) bullet points on career and no more than 3 on the other jobs (I would even say 2 would be sufficient since you're clearly trying to angle the career in a better light so don't focus so much on the older college/pre college jobs despite being there for long)

It does not take a genius to know that was the best approach. This man really pushed for me to delete a decent amount of my resume, which is a sign of a bad recruiter

Hell if he said what I said in the above I would've understood but nope, he wanted it all out <_<
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