Is this what you call Recruiting?

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Hello,

My name is KXXXX and I’m a Sr. Recruiter at Artech.Artech has an urgent contract for one of our direct clients

Job Title: PROJECT MANAGER I _ Pricing Analyst

Location: Ashburn, VA

Duration: 6+ Month

Job Description:

Support Telecommunication Federal Sales Division through the development and Preparation of Pricing Proposals for major bids on behalf of different customers mainly, US Government and it’s Agencies and other Public and Private Entities. Responsibilities include analyzing RFP requirements, setting up timelines, closely working with account teams and corporate business development group to provide complex standard and non standard pricing of various telecommunication services and information technology services both for domestic and international customer needs. The right candidate will have strong financial background to do complex competitive analysis; will have the qualities of a team player, self-starter with minimum supervision, and enjoy analytical and detail oriented tasks; must be willing to do even small jobs assigned by the manager or the team leader; must have experience in financial modeling and working with large and complex models; willing to learn and share information with co-workers. A four-year college degree in Finance or Accounting is required with minimum 1 years of telecom pricing experience. He/she should have excellent written and verbal communications skills and must be efficient in the use of Microsoft Office ( Excel, Access, and PowerPoint and Word.

If you are available, interested, planning to make a change,please call me ASAP at (973) 993-XXXX Ext.XXXX, or reply back with your updated resume. If you do respond via e-mail please include a daytime phone number so I can reach you. In considering candidates, time is of the essence, so please respond ASAP.Artech is a global IT Consulting company with over 25 Fortune 500 customers. You may visit our website at <a title=”blocked::http://www.artechinfo.com/” href=”http://www.artechinfo.com/”>www.artechinfo.com</a> to learn more about us.

Thank you

Sincerely yours,

Kxxxx Dxxxxxxxx

(973) 993-XXXX Ext.XXXX

DXXXXXX_KXXXX@artechinfo.com

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First and foremost – I understand the need for creating an email template to get important information out to people. However, since you’re trying to recruit people, at least use mail merge so that the subject’s name to whom you’re sending the email appears. Come on, how about personalizing the email a little

Then I noticed the job title – Project Manager I_Pricing Analyst. Couple of things to mention – This guy has no idea what I do for a living because if he cared to read, forget reading – just scanned my resume, which I know he does not have and I’ll get to that later, he would have known that I’m not a Pricing Analyst. At this point, I know there’s no need to even read the rest of his email. However, what kind of operation are these guys running where a so-called “Sr. Recruiter” sends out a blanket e-mail to people who are obviously not qualified to fill his job order?

The reason why I said that this person does not have my resume is because if he had it, it would (should) be obvious that I’m not a pricing analyst. Then the last line of the email says something like if you’re with AT&T, then don’t bother responding…what?? If I were recruiting on this position and saw someone that currently worked at the client site, I would be sure to call that candidate to find out first hand as to why they’re looking to leave, and probably develop a passive relationship with the person. What if you got a similar requirement from Sprint or Verizon (both are in the Dulles corridor) tomorrow…all of a sudden, you’d have a person working in the Telco industry that you’ve talked to before and you would be ahead of the competition.

To me – this guy is not a recruiter. He’s a sourcer. Recruiters that accept searches will call any and all qualified candidates, active or passive.

Overall, this recruiter gets an F. Good Luck to them and their potential employees. Sounds like a body shop to me.