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Been There, Taught That
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Mungyeong: not a village, not yet a metroplex.
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 Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 5:18 pm Post subject: Anybody ever heard ths from a recruiter before? |
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Maybe someone has gotten something like the following, but I haven't before run across a recruiter so backed up with candidates and short on positions that they could come out and say this to someone:
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Due to the high volume of applications received, we will only be contacting candidates who are short listed (those applications we choose to move forward with).
If we are interested in moving forward with your application we will subsequently contact you to let you know what the next step is. |
Admittedly, I did respond about a specific private institute job in a specific city and mentioned a few things that were important to me, but the start date is two months down the line. I'd expect to hear this if I was applying at IBM or a firm on Wall Street, not from a recruiter for an ESL job in Korea.
I didn't think it was becoming an employers' or recruiters' market just yet. Or is this a new recruiter technique to generate desperation among potential teachers? |
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Ramen
Joined: 15 Apr 2008
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Don't pay attention to those idiots.
It's still a teacher's market. |
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Illysook
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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| I got that exact same autoresponse. |
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gteacher
Joined: 24 May 2007
Location: Ghost in the machine
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| Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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I got the same response. Didn't send any further information when they requested it. Got another email requesting more information so we could arrange an interview. I never responded as I had already started a new position elsewhere. Got a phone call a week ago from the recruiter offering me a position.
The message is just a ploy to sucker in fresh meat. |
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KYC
Joined: 11 May 2006
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That recruiter is very well known *wink wink*
I hate recruiters who sends out mass, yet generic emails like that. It's very impersonal. True, it is the recruiting business and the recruiters don't work for you but it's still not very professional. |
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sarahbeara_413
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Which recruiter is it? |
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Been There, Taught That
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Mungyeong: not a village, not yet a metroplex.
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I still haven't heard a thing from this recruiter. I'm not anxious, though. It just makes me believe that the recruiter biz is kind of like the US temp biz: they always advertise one good job to get you to respond, then steer you to all the other random jobs they have waiting, instead of addressing the job an applicant asked about for in the first place.
At least this (in)famous one seems to be doing that. |
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Tobias
Joined: 02 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:37 am Post subject: When you do hear from him |
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Yeah, this is just a game to make you believe you aren't worth much. When you do hear from this recruiter, play games with him. Tell him you want a certain (reasonable) salary and aren't going to settle for less. Tell him you have a sparkling CBC. See what happens. He'll then be forced to show you how long his short list is, which I bet is very, very short. But this is because it really is a teacher's market right now, so he doesn't have many names to begin with.
If a recruiter started playing these psych-out games with me, I'd increase my salary demand by a half million. We'd work down from there. |
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