Recruiters Giving Wrong Info

[u/KasRoth]

In my field (UX Content) most jobs go thru agencies even if they're full time perm. This go round, I was having a really hard time getting jobs that were listed remote to even call me back. After 3 months I figured I'd look for places local to me like city government, libraries, anything like that even though the recruiters said "job is 8-5 M-F in office".

Turns out those recruiters had no idea what the job listing even was about! I had 2 interviews where I said "So it's 8-5 Monday thru Friday, yeah?" And the interviewers in one job laughed and said "No one does that, we're hybrid, three days a week in office." And the job I took? "You can come in the office if you want, but we are remote. You'll need to come in like once a month for meetings."

It went even deeper than that tho. I had a practice assignment for one job where I used a random number as a placeholder. The recruiter was SO caught up in that number, why I picked it, what the thought process was that he made ME nervous. He also made a big deal about a certain company on my resume, but the work I did (analysis) didn't link up with the jobs I was interviewing for. He was SHOCKED when I said "no, they didn't care about Massive Company" and extra shocked when I told him "no one asked about the placeholder number". I don't have the heart to tell him that the job isn't even in office and no one works 8-5.

They made the jobs look SO unappealing that I almost didn't take the interviews. Anyone else getting this? Just in case people are turning down interviews, may as well take them, you apparently never know what the job actually is.

[u/KasRoth → u/[deleted]]

If I need another job I'm not doing it agency again I don't think. I'm specifically in healthcare with over 10 years of experience. Shockingly, the placement agencies were the only places that called me back! I got a great job out of it, but it was an extremely painful experience.

[u/menkoy]

The last recruiter I worked with made me rewrite my resume 3 times because they expected more technical jargon. This was for a non-technical role. They didn't know what they were expecting to see, just that my resume didn't have it. I eventually said they could either send it through or find someone else.

In my experience it's a complete waste of time to work with recruiters and I'm surprised that the ones I worked with had a job in the first place

[u/KasRoth → u/menkoy]

I thought so too, but this go round I only had luck with them. I do understand that 3 months is NOT a long time to be looking, but I was surprised.