Re: What would you do?

[Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>]

This is very common for me in Sacramento where recruiters for contract 
positions with the State of California and the county claim to be 
"preferred vendors" and are based in India with a domestic presence 
somewhere in the country. The county and a local community power company 
told me that they do not outsource, yet most of the presented positions 
and interviews I have had with the county are from Indian companies and 
the community power positions quit showing up after I contacted that 
company.  I don't know what sort of company you are working with but 
here my experience with a similar problem.

The Indian companies that do most of the recruiting seem to almost 
always want "puffing" in excess of the truth. "Stretch your experience 
with this," "build up your employer for that," "can you say you have 
experience here?" The truth is, the Indian companies are taking over the 
IT market in government and high-tech, so if you cannot comply with what 
they want, they will find someone who can. Honest business may have to 
follow suit to compete.

I am too honest to work in this market anymore and I don't know of any 
lateral move I can make. Sacramento county, the State of California, and 
high tech companies work with the Indian contractors and the Indian 
companies are who is hiring. They are also pushing out local small 
business recruiters. Until government and high tech employers put a stop 
the outsourcing, the dishonest representation will continue. As it is, 
government hiring is complacent to outsourcing because the Indian 
companies maintain a domestic presence somewhere. Technology companies 
have always used international employment.

For some reason, the most common recruiting firm I have seen lately is 
22nd Century Staffing Inc. (TCSI) I mis-dialed a recruiter once and got 
their Indian call center. They confirmed that I was calling the right 
company and that they were based in India but I talked to someone who 
did not have a good grasp of American English. She kept asking me for 
information so she could route my call. I told her I didn't want to talk 
to an Indian call center. When I have talked to several other recruiters 
from TCSI for the different positions they have contacted me about, they 
all tell me they are an American company based in Virginia and all of 
their recruiters have been Indian. The company offers higher than 
average hourly rates and does not provide any personal interaction, like 
interview preparation or follow-up.

Here is what the company says about itself, "22nd Century Staffing Inc. 
(TSCSI) is the fastest growing staffing company in North America and the 
only firm of its kind specialized in all type of staffing services. 
TSCSI with its Headquarters in Ashburn, VA with presence in 30+ states 
of the Nation. TSCSI has over 50+ Information Technology & General 
Staffing Services contracts in place with numerous United States 
Government and Private sector Agencies."

What other people say about them is consistent with I am learning.
https://www.indeed.com/cmp/22nd-Century-Staffing-Inc./reviews?id=0c7e12f8924ca9a2
https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-22nd-Century-Staffing-RVW6940731.htm

They do get some good reviews on glassdoor from "employees," however, 
they have a lot of recruiters who are also employees looking for more 
people. The positive reviews for TCSI are often anonymous and contain 
English errors that are typical in recruiter emails.

I don't know what to do when the recruiters want very specific skill 
sets and ask me to lie on my resume. I don't lie.

On 2/8/2017 11:12 AM, Keith Hood wrote: