I previously posted a rant and a bit of a story telling article about some of my horrible experiences with recruiters. Well about a month ago I had yet another experience. I give to you the proof.

I was sitting at home  and I received this email. (shortened to just useful excerpts)

Hello Erik,
Trust you are doing well. I just left you a Voice Mail.

Please let me know if you are interested in the position bellow by sending me your resume. I will call you to further discuss..

Web Developer III
Location: Orlando, FL
Job Type: Contract
Duration: 9 months
Rate: Open

.. long position summary ..
.. requirements ..
Significant experience with Content Management Systems
3-4 years of hands-on web development, including XML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript
3 years experience with ASP/JSP/PHP or other server-side scripting language
Experience with Flash and ActionScript a strong plus
Experience with two and three tier web architecture.

Reading this I’m thinking wow, this sounds an awful lot like a position where I work, Web Developer III my work ranks our development positions I, II, III most places use Jr., Sr. etc. Ok, location Orlando, even closer. 9 month contract. Ok now this is getting eerie. Any contract position I have ever been offered is 6 or 12 months, occasionally i’ll get offered a 3 month, but 9 months is a Disney thing.

So on to the requirements, significant experience with CMS we heavily use cms’s ASP/JSP/PHP or other server-side scripting language at this point it has to be Disney, how many companies don’t care what language you have experience in? Disney has its own internally developed language so we hire from all backgrounds, but I’d guess the overwhelming majority of companies hire straight from the large pool of people that use the technology they implement.

But surely he couldn’t have emailed me an offer for a job at my current employer, after all he found me through my resume that is on monster.com (which I’d also like to mention hasn’t been updated in at least 6-9 months). I mean its the first entry in my previous experience section. Ok the suspense is killing me, lets just ask.

Dear Recruiter,

Is this position with Disney Internet Group / Disney Interactive Media Group / Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Online ? Based off the contract term, the position title, skill set they are seeking, and overall job description it sounds just like it?

it did not take long to receive a reply, maybe 15 minutes.

Erik,

Thanks for your response. Yes the position is with one of the Disney groups. Would you be interested? feel free to send in your resume and I can call you back to further discuss the position with you. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. My details are listed below.

Thanks

Recruiter

This is the point where I yell some profanity, along the lines of you have to be f*in kidding me! I shouldn’t be surprised, but I am. Why on earth would you not read someones resume before contacting them about a position. I’m fired up now. and as usual for me I’m pretty blunt I feel something needs to be said. So this is my reply.

I can’t tell you how much this response disappointments me. The sad truth is that this isn’t the first situation like this that has happened to me either, and is almost a daily occurrence at the office. I believe that I speak for quite a number of professionals when I ask that you please read our resume’s before contacting us regarding positions.

You are contacting me about a position that I already work in, I have been working for Disney since January of 2007, and have been a full time employee of theirs since April of 2008  and still presently working there, had anyone looked at the first entry in the employment experience section of my resume they would have noticed that.

Again, please read our resumes before contacting us about positions that we already hold, or that have nothing to do with our knowledge and previous work experience, because our resume happens to contain some sort of keyword out of the job description.

Sincerely,
Erik St. Martin

I know this probably won’t help he is probably on to his next victim, but it made me feel a little better.