I am sure all of us have been inundated with highly questionable emails from "recruiters" either trying to get us to be submitted for a job, or trying to get us to hire somebody. I have found, through a test I will describe, that almost all of these emails and phone calls are fraudulent. The "recruiter" has no legal relationship with the client, and is pretending that he or she does to the job candidates so they will send resumes, then the "recruiter" pretends to have ongoing relationships with the job candidates to the employer. The "recruiters" are generally using job boards to do this, but, unfortunately, job boards can generate genuine leads and might not be a good thing to cut off. I use quotes around the word "recruiters" because there are still a few genuine recruiters out there who for real have relationships with clients.
These two things have done wonders for me, as a job candidate, for getting rid of "recruiters."
- When I receive an obvious spam email from a "recruiter," one that is for a job in another geographic region, I forward the email to spam@uce.gov, with a CC to the person sending the spam. This is the email for reporting illegal spam to the Federal Trade Commission. My email is some variation of this:
To the Federal Trade Commission:
I am reporting the following email as illegal spam. It does not have one-click unsubscribe available for text-based emails, it was filtered by a spam filter, and it is a mass mailing with no relevance to me.
I read (http://currengroup.com/2015/08/7-dangerous-ways-to-run-afoul-of-the-can-...) that the fine for one single incident of violating the CAN-SPAM Act is $16,000, and violations can lead to prison time. The article cites the case of 34-year-old Milos Vujanic sentenced to spend 48 months in federal prison and pay $17.3 million in restitution. A couple of accomplices got smaller fines but much longer prison sentences — 30 and 40 years.
There is no excuse for deceiving people and wasting time and resources with such illegal activity. Your agency's effort has the wholehearted support of (almost) all of us.
I never hear from the spammer again.
2 When I receive a job lead for a local job, I am not sure if it is legitimate or not, so I send the following email:
Thank you for your interest. In order to save everyone time, I am only working with recruiters who screen jobs and then send job descriptions by email. The requirements are at http://www.pbzproductions.com/recruiters.html. This also applies to my referring other people.
For future reference, my resume is attached.
I also have embedded the following near the top of my Dice resume in red type:
Staffing firms: Please do not call. Instead visit www.pbzproductions.com/recruiters.html for requirements, and only send pre-screened job descriptions by email.
If you check out those requirements, you will find that they are exactly the criteria that determines if the project is a good, legitimate, and ultimately successful one. Also, interestingly, a recruiter has to have a genuine relationship with the client to be able to get this information and respond to the items in the requirements. Only those recruiters who respond accurately to what is on my web page have genuine leads. It eliminates all the pretenders. Which is almost all of them.
I hope this helps! Borrow whatever you need. I wish it didn't take me so long to figure this out.
Patty Zevallos