It’s happened to everyone, I’m sure.
A colleague of mine from another branch who places mostly administrative people forwarded me a technical resume yesterday. I wasn’t that impressed with the resume for a number of reasons, but they weren’t necessarily dealbreakers, so I hadn’t made a decision about it yet.
The candidate called me today to follow up. I opened his resume and tried to get some detail out of him about it, figuring that lots of perfectly good tech people write terrible resumes, and maybe I had a diamond in the rough on my hands.
I didn’t. It was one of the most painful phone conversations I’ve had recently. But that’s not the reason for this post. What I want to know is…
…What do you do when the reason you don’t want to work with the person on the phone is that he’s dumb as bricks?
September 22nd, 2006 at 11:06 pm
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September 30th, 2006 at 6:46 am
Tiffany - standard script… “[candidate] I’m not working on any positions that you would be a good match for at the momment, but you never know when things might change. I will keep your resume on file and get in touch with you when I do have a match.” Hang up phone, file resume in circular file.
September 30th, 2006 at 10:16 am
That’s pretty much word-for-word what I said…