Re: Recruiting dilemma

["William Sherman" <bsherman77 -at- embarqmail -dot- com>]

Please don't take my previous note as a slam on businesses from India or 
people from India. I have worked with many over the years, and had very good 
experiences.  I just wanted to point out that where once your call would 
come from Aerotek, Butler, Technisource, Hi Tec, Volt, or a host of names 
long ago with offices usually local to the local larger cities, today a lot 
of calls come from companies that don't have Bill, Tom, Harry, Sue, Mary, 
and so on. They have Praveen, Ahmed, Chandra, Santosh, and so on.

I have found this to be an issue in two instances: when the person speaking 
has such a thick accent you cannot understand them and when they send 
contracts that ignore most of what we take for granted in employment laws.

Otherwise, most I have found are very hard workers, try very hard, are very 
likeable, and very polite. I've worked in a few jobs where the majority of 
people were Indian, and have worked for Indian companies (ironic the Indian 
companies hiring Americans, since it was the opposite for so long).


The sad part is that recruiting is just a sales job and is marketed to young 
recruits as that. The most technical thing these recruiters know is probably 
booting their computer, logging into email, and running the company's resume 
search engine.

They probably have no idea what RoboHelp is, or any other piece of software 
or hardware on a requirement. Odds are they don't even know the correct 
spelling of the item, so if the requirement comes in misspelled, they will 
never find it in their searches.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Weissman, Jessica" <WeissmanJ -at- abacustech -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 8:40 AM
Subject: RE: Recruiting dilemma