Larry Chaffin

I was given a tip about the problem of recruiters posting fake jobs; this was just to get a 1000 or more resumes to sell. I guess I did not know this but there is a nice business going on now in this area. So to see what would happen we made up three resumes of fake people. The first was a CIO with 20 years of experience in big companies and a whole list of published articles. The next was a three time CCIE who has been doing networking for 15 years and had project management experience. The last was our entry level with a few certifications and administrations jobs.

So with that we posted for jobs that our resumes would fit and then some we were over qualified for, but that was ok. We looked at the positions that said remote position\work from home office with a national telecommunication company or fortune 100 companies. Also we applied for architect, engineer and executive jobs as well. We applied for around 70 jobs and even on some of them we made sure we had the experience they wanted. Being just right or over qualified you would think we would get a call, but no, we got emails saying sorry but you did not meet the qualification of the position.

Talking with a director for a small marketing company on Sunday he mentioned that they are hiring again. When I asked him why he said it is due to Google Voice. The application that allows the customers to have voicemail changed to text and then displayed on the web or phone, it has telemarketers people all happy. They had many people blocking or turning off texting to stop marketing from companies for a while, now they can get back to phone calls.

I can see his point, Google Voice might be the best thing for telemarketers since the wireless headsets. If a telemarketer calls a number and do not get anyone to answer they can leave a voice mail. Now if you are a Google Voice user and have your voicemails changed to text for your inbox or phone, you will see many more telemarketing calls. But it also works the other way for users, if you don't know the caller you just don't pick the phone up and let it go to voice mail. Then you can just delete the voicemail when you see it is a telemarketer. Allot more easier than having to listen to each voice mail then deleting.