Phone screen

So, the Career Builder approach. Is it effective? Hmm... I'm not quite sure. But I have received several calls from recruiter companies who've gotten access to my resume through Career Builder. So I can say that uploading your resume on CB is not completely useless.

Speaking of recruiters, I was contacted by a recruiter company, let's call them SH, several days ago. This company is based on Texas. The recruiter left a message saying that she had my resume in front of her and wanted to talk about a job opening that I was inquiring about. She didn't tell me how she got my resume. Moreover, she spoke fast with an accent which made me clueless about what her name was and where she was calling from. So I called her number back and got to an automated operator for the company. Whew! At least now I know the company name.

After some research to make sure it was a legit phone call, I called her back to set up a phone screening appointment. It was set up for 10 am my time the next day. (We made sure we're on the same time zone). So the next day I set up my alarm for 8 o'clock. After waking up, I decided to close my eyes for another 10-15 minutes before taking a shower and getting ready for the phone call. But then, 8.16, my phone rang. I looked at the number, and it was her! Shoot! Should I just ignore it? Then I thought, I'll just answer it and get it over with.

She started by asking if I received the material she sent over to my email address. I thought to myself, it's 8 o'clock in the morning, when am I suppose to check my email? So I just said that I didn't receive anything from her,which turned out to be true (I checked later on and there was no such email). Then she asked about 3 questions and that was it. She said she'll try sending the materials over again and we would talk again after that.

So the whole day that day, I kept refreshing my email folder. Nothing! Not even in the junk mail folder. At the end of the day, I left a phone message to let her know I still haven't received any email from her. And that was the end of it, I didn't hear from her again. It felt like a joke...

Today I got another phone call from SH recruiter. But this time, it was a different person. She speaks clear, she mentions that she got my resume from CB, and I notice something else. When the first person called, she told me to call her on a different number from the SH phone number. But the second recruiter give me SH's 1-800 number and gave me her extension. So, was the first one not a legit call? Hmmm...

Well, that's my recent job search experience. A very weird one...