Resume received!

Well, I'm back to the job search. I set my career aside for two [glorious] years to play college volleyball, but now it's time to return to the real world and that means a full-time job. I put my resume up on Monster and some other career sites and have received some interesting responses, though, unfortunately none of them legitimate.

Last week I got a voicemail and an email from a "marketing" company who said they had received my resume. Thing is, I never applied to this company. Later, when my phone rang with an unknown number I answered it (against my better judgment) on the off-chance it could be a real company calling about a real job for which I had actually applied. However, no such luck.

The person on the other end was from the "HR Department" of this "marketing" company and she continued the ruse about having "received" my resume. When I mentioned I had not applied for any position within the company, she relented and said they had pulled it off of Careerbuilder.com. And of course, it just so happened that they had a position that perfectly matched my education and experience.

She said they were looking for entry-level marketing professionals (did she even look at my resume?!?) who could move into management positions within one year. She wanted to bring me in for an interview with some of their "managers" the very next morning. When I said I wasn't available the next morning and would need to push the interview to the next week (this was a late Thursday afternoon), she started giving me the hard sell on why it had to be the next day because she "wasn't even scheduling next week's interviews yet." It all sounded quite fishy and as a result I declined the interview. My guess is that the job sucks (probably telemarketing) and that's why they have to hoodwink people into coming in for interviews.

This week I received a message from another company called American Income Life Insurance, who had also pulled my resume from Careerbuilder. I'm glad I looked this company up before calling anyone back. Google is rife with complaints about this company's aggressive recruitment tactics. Oh yeah, and the fact that it's a scam. 

Lesson learned: companies are hiring right now, but they probably aren't the ones you'd want to work for.