One of my favorites was the one that contacted me saying that my experience at Microsoft made me an ideal candidate. They never responded after I pressed them for specifics.
I have never worked for Microsoft.
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Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The amount of time recruiters contact me after i decline with “I had no idea you had [insert qualification started clearly on my resume] experience” is 100% of the time.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I used to have the title “system administrator” in my resume. I guess recruiters were just going off of single keyword searches because I’d get all kinds of emails about unrelated administrative positions like “social security administrator.”
My favorite example was when I got invited to apply for the position of “ocean administrator.” I looked it up at the time and it seemed to be about directing shipping traffic, but it’s more fun to imagine that I would have been in some way directing the ocean itself.
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 2 months ago
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It wouldn’t be King Triton?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Poseidon’s intern
Railcar8095@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I was rejected for a Master. I asked to know why and they told me it was because I needed a bachelor degree to apply.
I had two. At the very top of my résumé. At least they accepted me after I pointed that out.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have a simple rule that’s worked out really well for me to avoid getting recruiters like that. If their name is foreign, I don’t answer. To be clear, this isn’t me “doing a racism”. If they are from a company I’ve worked with and know to be good I’ll still pick up. But generally if they have an Indian name, they are part of a resume farm and not paying any attention. I’ve also started seeing ones from Africa this year that caught me off guard. Tried to talk to a couple before I realized what was going on amd stopped answering any of them. What’s really great is when they use the exact same introduction message.
SirDerpy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You can claim it’s not racism a million times. But, that doesn’t change the truth of it.
I’m a natural US citizen of Indian heritage. I do the same thing as you: filter all recruiters with Indian names. It’s the only practical course of action.
The difference between us is I admit that it’s racism. I’m far less likely to fall down the slippery slope.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Racism implies an opinion of superiority based on race. We both filter based on race because of a systemic issue that overwhelming relies on Indian nationals, not a racial issue. I have no problem with indian recruiters from know good companies. If it were racism that wouldn’t be the case. Using the “slippery slope” as some sort of moral justification to it is just a logical fallacy. Do whatever makes you feel better about it though I guess.
SirDerpy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Racism implies an opinion of superiority based on race.
No. You moved the goal post such that your actions aren’t included. The rest of your post is based on this false premise, minimization, and projection.
racism
noun
Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No, racism is judging someone purely from an aspect of their race. Like say, ignoring calls from people with Indian sounding names.
orcrist@lemm.ee 2 months ago
What’s really funny is that you don’t know whether a name is foreign. If you’re actually interested in determining that, we could write you a quiz, and you can take it, and see how you score.
It’s a big country, well I assume it is, I didn’t actually ask where you live, but you probably live in a large enough country where you just have no idea what normal names are, in the communities where you don’t reside.
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I work as a contractor in Pharma/Consumer goods AKA the FDA/DEA controlled territory. If i ignored people who differ from my caucasian/Irish ass i would bea very broke contractor.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah I imagine so. That’s a very different scenario and it wouldn’t make sense to ignore a specific group. Getting cold calls from recruiters on LinkedIn is a very different scenario from that and I wouldn’t expect my situation to apply there at all.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If all human resources was being part scam and part class warfare on purpose, it’s not clear what they’d be doing differently