Job search saga | Day ‘x’

I really have no idea how long I’ve been searching nor the number of resumes I sent out … but today I have a kind of stupid-funny story to tell …

I sent in a resume last night.

This morning I received the following from the recipient : “I selected my one allotted candidate for the Curam job. Feel free to call me on Friday or next week!”

So of course, *I* call today (aka Friday).

This is our conversation … (or an excerpt there of)

Me: “Hi Andrew, this is Aimee. blah blah blah. You suggested I give you a call.”
[insert polite junk about the weather]
Andrew: “So, our company is a staffing/recruiting firm and we’d like to include you in our database.”
Me: “Ok, great!”
[Insert info about his company, how poorly the economy has made staffing, how they are hurting … yadda yadda yadda.]
Andrew: “Job hunting is really all about networking, so I encourage you to join user groups, catch up with old friends, [blah blah blah]. I have your resume here and I don’t see where it discusses what you do exactly. In the first three jobs you don’t specify.”

[Here’s me thinking, hunh? You can’t tell from my resume? Maybe I need to rewrite it]
Andrew: “What kind of infrastructure support do you do?”
Me: “I’m sorry, what? In the first three items I wrote about training. I have focused my efforts on software development in a training and educational field.”
Andrew: “Right, well I don’t see that.”

[Me thinking … what in the world?]
Andrew : “It’s really important that your resume include buzz words.”
Me: “Mine does.”
Andrew : “Like?”
Me: “Training. Education.”
Andrew : “And those are buzz words for what?”
Me: “elearning?”

[Now I’m getting pissed.]
Me again : “Andrew, I gotta stop you. What exactly is the purpose of this call?”
Andrew : “So we can discuss what we could do for you.”
Me : “Ok, but my resume is clear. I don’t need resume help right now. I’m solely and completely job hunting and my resume is great for its purpose.”
Andrew : “Right, so would you say you would be comfortable converting a Novell network to Windows?”

[Me thinking? Is this guy even reading MY resume? How in the WORLD does that apply to elearning? IDIOT!}

Me: “No, I wouldn’t. That has nothing to do with training or education.”
Andrew: “Oh. Well we’ll keep your resume in our database. You can always check our website for more opportunities, too, it’s …. blah blah blah.”

Is he kidding?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
NO THANK YOU. 🙂