If we want you to find us candidates, we'll call you. We have specific needs, and over twenty years of hiring experience says that I can't afford to spend my time discarding 80% of the CV's you submitted because one word in the CV matches the crude automated phrase matching that you guys do.
If you actually interview each candidate and understand the the environment in which we work, such that we'll accept 80% of the CV's... well, then we might talk. But I'll invoice you for any time I spend discarding unsuitable CV's, above the 20% mark. I'm quite serious. I'm fed up with getting CV's for, ohhh, Java programmers when someone has mentioned that they can't do without a cup of Java in the morning and has no programming experience or interest in programming, or that they had a job as a tourist guide in Java, etc. Word matches don't do it for me, they just add annoyance to my busy day. Are we clear enough? Just in case you don't get it, Java is a place, a reference to coffee bean origin geolocation and a programming language - so matching the word Java does not mean that the candidate uses any programming languages at all. And we're not looking for Java programmers - we want OCaml programmers, if we want programmers. Word matching "camel" won't work - we don't want people who've done camel racing, unless they also happen to know this unusual programming language.
An ability to pick up the phone and talk fearlessly in ignorance about submitting CVs for unsuitable people, does not make you a recruitment agent. It makes you a completely useless timewasting phone pest. Green? 5 by 5? Got it?
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