I think the vast majority of recruiters are not qualified to read (understand) the resumes that are coming in.

Would you want a person with no understanding of football in charge of drafting for your football team?

This is an exaggerated example but not far off from the reality.

> Do recruiters even read resumes anymore? I am genuinely not sure at this point.

Did they ever read resumes?

Up until last year, the only real problems I ever had with recruiters were in staffing agencies. I feel like at least prior to the pandemic, people did at least skim over your resume to get an idea of who you were as a whole... I would get interviews, but nowadays I am lucky if I even get an automated rejection e-mail.

So are you saying you DONT want that help desk job I emailed you 200 times about?

Do you know anyone who might be looking for this kind of role? No? I'm SO GLAD that ALL your friends have work!

I get that this is a facetious comment, but I'd like to highlight to two groups my social network falls into.

Anyone I know who is technical isn't looking for a 6 month contract role in helpdesk halfway across the country that requires on-site presence.

Anyone else I know, even those who are unemployed, is non-technical and unqualified for the role.

Which makes it all the more infuriating that recruiters get snippy when I refuse to help them grow their network for free.

Recruiters are like people on dating apps. You can tell when they're not doing well because they start writing angry, frustrated messages that they try to pass off as light-hearted.

I get between 8 and 15 emails from recruiters most days. They found my resume at any of a half dozen sites. It is rare for one of these emails to be even a remote match for my skills.

No, no one read it. They used some sort of keyword search and then sent out spam to the result list.

BUT, the phone calls are just as bad. Is it really that much trouble to look at the resume you got the phone number from? Java isn't on my resume FOR A REASON. (Or .net, or Wyoming, or something)!

Recruiters "come across" résumés based on a keyword search. Then they attempt to reconstruct them by wasting your time with questions like "What are your skills?" and "Walk me through your last few years of experience".

It is a fancy version of the game "Go Fish."