Have I mentioned that I have applied for a lot of jobs? I graduated in May of 2009 and after nearly a year and half of—fortunately for me—underemployment, and the number of my CVs out in the job-search abyss has to be approaching the hundreds. Yes, "hundreds," as in plural. I’ve uploaded my resume to countless job-search sites, emailed my resume to dozens of prospective employers, and I’ve even used the archaic U.S. Postal Service once or twice to forward along my qualifications. What has all of this accomplished so far? Obviously not gainful employment, or I would not be voicing my disdain in this modern, anonymous medium. Rather, I have inherited something that’s more of a headache and cruel burden to all of my electronic modes of communication.
You see, I get crap emails all the time from bogus recruiters in high-turnover industries. And I mean all the time, like more than five a day. Often, they are even bold and savvy enough to sneak through my spam filters, engendering the rare instance of subdued excitement at the possibility that lies within the subject line “Position opening," which is immediately quashed when I learn that it’s for selling life insurance exclusively on commission. That’s assuming it’s even for a real industry, often it isn’t and it’s just in the form of some type of scam, or pyramid scheme.
Even more charmingly, I even get phone calls from these fraudulent recruiters. I’m also the lucky recipient of more than one of these per day. I’m not of the timid sort, so I have no problem telling these people to take me off their lists, but then much to my dismay, the calls will just show up from a different number.
I’ve taken my resume down from anything that appears even remotely suspect in regards to legitimacy, and it has lessened the volume of this obnoxious bombardment. My advice would be that even if you are desperate, be discerning. These sorts of circumstances we find ourselves in are often—quite literally—ones where we cannot afford to waste our time.
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