Recruitment

[littlebillie]

Today I received an email request from a male recruiter, to reply to them about a number of roles which had appeared and may be suitable for "my" skill set. I have informed this agency many, many times in the past a) I am not looking b) I am not a junior.

It is not usual for women to be senior in this role and I had to respond

"It's an easy mistake to make as our industry is quite sexist"

Am I being over sensitive?

"Am I being over sensitive?"

I think you are.

I am a mid-senior level TA. I am regularly contacted about roles that are entry level and pay sometimes 15k less that what I am currently only.

You getting bombarded about jobs you think you're overqualified for is nothing to do with you being a female.

Perhaps you are right, end of a tedious week thanks Indiana

I see it's annoying but I doubt its personal. They are just nails hitting without thinking. Maybe it's a trainee recruiter going through the databases as a task. If you are fed up with them I'd ask politely if they could take you off their database but you will definitely contact them should you have a recruitment requirement in the future. No point in falling out with them. Recruiters know a lot of people and you don't know when your paths may cross again (maybe if that recruitment company are hired to procure for a job you are interested in, maybe that recruiter will move companies to a recruitment company you do like. Maybe you may need them to find you a job one day. It pays to be nice).

Nails hitting?! Mail shotting

It's probably impossible to tell. It seems likely to me that it's probably being generated by a fairly simple matching algorithm and then not being reviewed by the recruiter that's sending it out. Probably because it's not worth the effort to weed out the unsuitable ones.

I'd ask to be removed from their mailing list, and also automatically dump their emails into a separate folder just in case they struggle to comply with your request.

Recruiters tend to send things that may be even slightly suitable out because they're under pressure to fill roles. My husband regularly gets asked to reply for reception roles when he's a manager

I know over sensitive, I think I told them at least a dozen times what I do. I've worked in recruitment years ago and it is a numbers game.

Glad to hear that men get same treatment!