Honestly, I'm starting to feel like Charlie Brown and Lucy with the football! A week ago I got an email from a recruiter who was from out of state recruiting for one of our big companies here. I told him that I don't work with recruiters who aren't in my home state, but apparently (according to him) they've placed jobseekers with this company. (The company is nationwide, but headquartered here.) So I send him my resume, and I had to sign off on what he was submitting. He only put my last two years, all bundled as contract work, and none of my earlier work. When I asked him why, he said his boss told him to do it that way because I had so many contract jobs that were short term with too much time inbetween.

It's been a week today, and I haven't heard anything from this recruiter, and this isn't the only one that has ghosted me. There was one who sent me on one interview (I didn't get the job), and I haven't heard back from him. I called to follow up once a week and also to see what his client said and..... Crickets. Based on an article I read in LinkedIn, this week I'm starting to respond to recruiter emails with the position I'm looking for, that I only work with in-state recruting firms that service my area in a certain radius, and that I won't tell you what my last salary was nor will I send you my W2's. So get this: I got THREE emails from a recruting firm for the same position from three different people with a position that wasn't a fit!

So I ask you, are recruiters just a sham, because that's what I'm beginning to think.