Comment #76: Indian Recruiters?

Our of Control Recruiters?

When I have actually worked with Indian coworkers at various jobs, the experience has been fine overall. There have been some exceptions, but they have generally been good-natured, friendly people, who are competent, if not exceptionally so. What really bothers me is that lately, most of the recruiting contact emails I seem to get have been from people from India (the name is Indian, even though the contact details claim that they are located somewhere in the U.S.). Most of the time, the job description isn't anywhere close to my resume or experience, often with a completely different job title. Even if it is somewhat close, the email doesn't pass the smell test. Information missing.

Emails From Indian Recruiters

It looks like a generic script where the person didn't even fill in their name, i.e., ""Hello, my name is, and I am working with XYZ talent recruiting firm."" I can't believe that a legitimate recruiting company with actual job offers would be so sloppy. I just made my profile on Monster invisible because every single contact I was getting from there is garbage. Now I'm even beginning to get them from LinkedIn.

It is so discouraging. I cannot believe that there is not some way to detect these fraudulent operators and filter them out. I can't figure out how or why a company like Monster, once the biggest of the online job search giants, would benefit from all of this nonsense that destroys their credibility. It seems as if there is no motivation to preserve any integrity in the recruiting industry as a whole. It makes the process of trying to find work all that much more painful and frustrating."