I’m sick of unprofessionalism

I’m fed up. I’m sick and tired. Of being treated like a piece of meat by recruiters. Each week I get at least 4 emails from recruiters about potential jobs. None of these boneheaded recruiters ever address me by name. Clearly either I’m only one of multiple recipients or the recruiters are just too damned lazy to copy my name off the resume they looked at to get to me in the first place and paste it into the email.

Here is the response I send to each and every one of them:

Dear Recruiter,

As a candidate I don’t work with recruiters who don’t have the professionalism to address me by name in an email about a possible job.

As a hiring manager who typically spends ~$2 million a year on contract staff I also don’t work with the companies who employ recruiters who lack the professionalism to address potential candidates by name. In my experience companies who do so are body shops and only interested in making a fast buck not in finding quality talent.

Best of luck.

James Sweet

It may sound crabby or worse but let me tell you, as a hiring manager for many years I can tell you that never once has a staffing firm that employs recruiters who employ these tactics provided me with a candidate that was even remotely close to what I was looking for. This is why I keep proselytizing the benefits of a company like Tek Systems that focuses on building a partnership with hiring managers. I don’t say this becuase I’m currently on a project through Tek. In fact, it is because of the way Tek treated me as a hiring manager that I’m with them as talent. They truly get it. I knew if I put out a requirement that Tek Systems would send me 2-3 candidates and that I would chose one of them because Tek took the time to learn about me, my company, the culture and the need.

If you need talent, please call Tek Systems. You cannot do better.