dealing with annoying recruiters

Juliette juliette at rootaction.net
Thu May 17 22:19:54 MDT 2007


I was wondering if anyone else has had this experience: Recruiting 
agency Sai People Solutions has been contacting me repeatedly to the 
point of harassment. Every time I update my resume on Monster, I can 
expect multiple calls from multiple people at this agency. The calls 
are always about a "wonderful opportunity in Round Rock" as a 
technical writer on contract for Dell. I've told the callers that I'm 
not interested in working in Round Rock, that I don't ever want them 
to call me again, but less than a day later, I get another call. I 
updated my resume on Tuesday and have had five phone calls from them 
in two days, plus several email messages. I only have a cell phone, 
no land line, so these calls are using up my daytime minutes. To add 
to the problem, I believe Sai People Solutions may be offshoring 
their work, as it sounds like English is not the native language of 
the recruiters, and they often have trouble reading their script.

Does anyone have any advice about what I can do to get this agency 
off my back? If I take my phone number off Monster, legit recruiters 
will be unable to contact me. (They could email me, but it seems many 
prefer to call.) At this point, all I can do is stop answering any 
calls from the area code Sai People Solutions uses. Would it be 
worthwhile to contact Dell's HR department and let them know that 
this agency is actually making me disinclined to work for Dell? I 
can't be the only person who's had to deal with this kind of problem. 
I'd appreciate any advice.

--Juliette Kernion





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