"We found your CV on..." frustration

[Justanticipating]

Ive uploaded my CV to Indeed and Reed, and i've had 2 companies/recruiters getting in touch about completely unsuitable roles. Is there any way to make it more clear?

I've added my preferences in. I'm looking for part-time and within local distance. I've been contacted about 2 jobs so far with no specific title or job spec from marketing companies which makes me think they're cold calling/ door to door type ones i've been tricked into before.

Also i'd already politely rejected one of them earlier today via email and at 10.30PM i've just had one of them sending me a txt to ask if still don't want to attend their day full of interviews tomorrow. Terrible.

In my view, most staff agencies are absolutely useless, and often do this sort of thing. They always contact you about vacancies that are the complete opposite of what you are looking for, and are unsuitable in just about every way possible.

No advice, but I've had exactly the same issue recently. It's very annoying 😕

It's usually a combination of automated keyword search on recently updated or new profiles. Let's say you work as a qualified accountant- you might get a recruiting agency searching for a telesales account manager. The keyword "account" picks up everything. They have targets to meet on with putting candidates forward to the hiring company so cast the net far and wide. Eventually when your profile isn't new it will slow right down, but the recruiter you want could be lurking in there somewhere with the job you're looking for.

I think it's pretty standard for recruiters to send through details of jobs that don't match your requirements. I've dealt with this for years, here are my tips:

1. Only reply to emails that interest you, ignore otherwise
2. Only reply to texts that interest you, otherwise ignore.
3. Don't answer phone calls if you think it may be a recruiter, let them drop through to voicemail. Don't ring them back unless they have something that interests you.
4. Alternatively, pick a recruiter, and ring them and build up a relationship with them to get them to find stuff that works for you.
5. Only do 4 if you know that they are the kind of company that builds personal relationships with job seekers.

SO thankfully since I posted this i've not had any more, maybe it's because of bank holiday.
Hopefully I'll get something decent soon haha

I've found the large agencies to be fairly useless, their staff don't know exactly what they are looking for. Smaller niche recruitment companies are likely to get better roles and understand exactly what to suggest for you. Search for the industry and role, then call up specialist recruiters for that industry / role e.g. there's a specialist for insurance finance, for specific IT security roles etc - that's where the top quality roles will go.