This should be stickied as a site-wide announcement.
This should be stickied as a site-wide announcement.
If your organization uses Indian recruiters to find talent, you are getting very low value for your money. The Indian recruiters are not bringing you appropriate candidates, nor showing you the best of the people they represent.
Overall, Indian recruiters demonstrate a poor understanding of job titles and requirements. In almost every case, I am approached with a job only tangentially related to my very clearly stated job title and career. Most of the Indian recruiters entirely ignore the hard requirements described in my profiles, forcing me to ask them if the jobs meet those requirements. Inevitably the answers are not forthcoming, or clear, as the Indian recruiters attempt to hide the answers. I know why they do this, and you know why they do this. Please know this is a poor, and exhausting practice.
Most Indian recruiters have a pitiful grasp of the English language. How am I supposed to think that a person who cannot form a well-written and professional looking introductory email, can represent me to a client in a good light? Why should I spend time with a person who can't even read half the words on my resume? If I were looking for a job in India, I'm sure these recruiters would do me a great service. But this is America, and most people speak and use English.
Finally, because of their heavy accents and remarkably shitty telephone connections (seriously, most of them sound like they're calling me on a 1980's cell phone from inside a Chinese open market), understanding Indian recruiters is difficult and phone calls take far too long. What's this about? I have had to tell Indian recruiters I can't understand them so many times (equally because of poor connection or accent), I've determined it's not worth speaking with them. Can Indian recruiting teams not afford decent telephone technology? Are they simply unaware of how bad things are? If the answer to either of these is 'yes', then why would I trust my career to people who are so professionally or technologically out of touch?
Interactions with Indian recruiters are entirely a waste of my time.
Do not use Indian recruiters.
If your organization uses Indian recruiters to find talent, you are getting very low value for your money. The Indian recruiters are not bringing you appropriate candidates, nor showing you the best of the people they represent.
Overall, Indian recruiters demonstrate a poor understanding of job titles and requirements. In almost every case, I am approached with a job only tangentially related to my very clearly stated job title and career. Most of the Indian recruiters entirely ignore the hard requirements described in my profiles, forcing me to ask them if the jobs meet those requirements. Inevitably the answers are not forthcoming, or clear, as the Indian recruiters attempt to hide the answers. I know why they do this, and you know why they do this. Please know this is a poor, and exhausting practice.
Most Indian recruiters have a pitiful grasp of the English language. How am I supposed to think that a person who cannot form a well-written and professional looking introductory email, can represent me to a client in a good light? Why should I spend time with a person who can't even read half the words on my resume? If I were looking for a job in India, I'm sure these recruiters would do me a great service. But this is America, and most people speak and use English.
Finally, because of their heavy accents and remarkably shitty telephone connections (seriously, most of them sound like they're calling me on a 1980's cell phone from inside a Chinese open market), understanding Indian recruiters is difficult and phone calls take far too long. What's this about? I have had to tell Indian recruiters I can't understand them so many times (equally because of poor connection or accent), I've determined it's not worth speaking with them. Can Indian recruiting teams not afford decent telephone technology? Are they simply unaware of how bad things are? If the answer to either of these is 'yes', then why would I trust my career to people who are so professionally or technologically out of touch?
Interactions with Indian recruiters are entirely a waste of my time.
Do not use Indian recruiters.
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