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I just got off the phone with a “recruiter”.
She begins with the typical introductions and pleasantries but once things got to business it became odd.
She began with asking what job title I was seeking. Then she asked if I had " a lot of skills in my area" not what they are or what technologies I have expierence with just, do I have skills. The entire time she seemed very rushed to get to the bottom line of when we could meet. While all of this was going on I did a reverse search of the phone number and found that it was in fact from the area she was claiming, bit it belonged to a private residence by a completely different name.

I am looking to move to raleigh, so I did not move any further with that call but I am wondering if anyone has gotten these odd recruitment calls before?

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That sounds like a scam… Wanting to “meet up” probably means “some big dudes are going to rob you”.

Or if you put a picture in with your resume, she likes what she sees… :wink:

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Not really. I will say my experience with recruiters hasn’t been great. Best I ever get from them is a free lunch. I’ve yet to have a job pan out with one. You could go in for a meeting if there is free food and humor them, or just ignore and move on with your life.

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Say yes, then google street the address she gives you. If you see liquor store, liquor store, and then a gun store, don’t go lol.

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Im a fan of liquor and gun stores =/

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Yeah, just last week I think. Hung up on him once I figured out what he wanted. Not a very interesting story, but yeah.

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No you just bring a bigger gun.

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I had a recruiter work out for my current job. But she was able to say where she got my resume, and what my listed skills were. This was because I had my details published on LinkedIn and she was doing research for people with Linux skills nearby.

She claimed to be from a large company, and it didn’t take too much effort to verify her identity. That’s how I got my current job doing Incident Response in a datacenter. It kicks ass.

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scam.

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Who wouldn’t; it’s Reptar!

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Not always a scam. Just be very very careful.

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You should have told her you have mad skillz in all areas of relating to things with wires and cloud magic!

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Right?

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She said that she found mu resume on career builder (I just posted it this morning) but she asked where I went to school and what degree I recieved. I have an automated email I could respond to from what seems to be a somewhat researchable company.

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AH. CareerBuilder. My girlfriend got TONS of scam calls from recruiters after putting up her resume here. Be very credulous about these people.

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It sounds like one of the recruiters that called me once. I went to meet him, confused about what the job entailed but curious enough to take the half-day off work. I met him, and it turned out it was some hotel management pyramid scheme thing, I politely told the guy where he could shove his pyramid scheme and went and enjoyed the rest of my day.

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Requesting that type of personal info just reeks of social engineering setup. Maybe the “recruiter” is semi-legit, even to meet up with in person, but that’s no guarantee your profile isn’t being sold to bad people… Someone later on calls, says “we went to X high school together, blah blah scam”.

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I had a recruiter call me once, wanted to do an interview…with 20 other people too. I looked up the phone number and business name (pyramid scheme) and confronted them with it and they hung up on me.

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It was on my resume.

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I’d be cautious. This reeks like day old garbage. There are a lot of legitimate recruiters in Raleigh/Durham, but this don’t sound like one of them.