5 different recruiters called me over the week, leaving me voicemails, all for the same job posting. In addition, during this time I received 5 emails for that same job posting from a 6th person.

In some ways, this is worse than Oxford.

I told them to f- off just now, that I was neither qualified nor interested. Let’s see if they stop…

Never had someone assault me with email and phone spam just for one damn posting. Isn’t silence usually a hint? These lowlifes seem to think otherwise.

I believe these guys just scour LinkedIn for anyone and everyone who will take their calls, then call the employer’s main line and try to get in. They somehow got through our secretary/office assistants who are the front lines answering the public phone line. The secretary/office assistance now know better than to forward them onto engineers. Some of these people even call our technical support line and try their sales pitch on support engineers (wasting their time). I don’t believe that was necessarily Oxford but just cold-call sales people in general. I, on occasion, answer our technical support line and basically tell these people to f— off for trying cold calls on a phone line intended for our customers.

My upper management has dictated in no uncertain terms that no employee in our entire company give Oxford even two seconds of their time. The calls have gone away, luckily.

I had 6 recruiters call me, all saying the same thing about finding my resume, all telling me to explain to them what I do, all wasting my time since I never heard from them after the initial call. That’s about 4-5 hours of my life wasted.

On the 7th, before they even began their speel, I told them never to call me again. Which was fine until today, when they decided to “proactively” call me because they opened a new office.

Sheesh, fuck off already. Go away, Oxford.

Apparently “john” / “paul” is unaware that blogs log IP addresses.

I leave it to the readers of my blog to evaluate the trustworthiness of a company’s defense being posted by an employee of the company who neglects to identify himself as such.

This company has been sucessful at starting a vast amount of multi-million dollar companies.

It is undeniable that they are good at what they do. They respect there applicants, they are not suckers. They often invest in there own startups and get behind there products.

You should be thankful that someone is even calling you about jobs in hard times like these. Realistically, there is no way recruiting firms make a significant impact on your work performance and if they do. Someone who can handle these “difficulties”

Can’t you just get a block on numbers and update your spam folders?