New Recruitment Strategies By Companies?

Posted by Prudence on November 10, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Yesterday, I was at the clinic with a patient when I received a phone call. The guy (who’s using a smart cellphone number) who called asked if I’d be interested to join in their company’s expansion program as a health consultant. I didn’t answer to that and asked him how he got my number and if somebody referred me to him. He said he got it from some “headhunter” that he couldn’t even recall the name (oh great, you’re trying to recruit someone and you don’t even want to remember people who referred that person to you. What about character references? Does he know about that?).

I asked him what company he’s working for. Then he answered me by saying words vaguely and were almost gibberish by the sound of it (he doesn’t even have a good accent trying to speak in English, which gave me the impression that he’s already memorized this part about his company and have been well-rehearsed to be able to say it very fast so I wouldn’t be able to catch what he exactly said). He only slowed down in talking when he was saying some buzzwords like “expansion”, “multinational company”, “compensation”, and “Stanford University” (oh, was he trying to impress me with the name? No, he didn’t. By the way he said “Stanford University”, I was only more convinced that there’s something fishy going on) and when he shifted to Filipino and asked, “Ano po ba ang specialization ninyo? (What’s your specialization?)”.

I decided to give him a little spin.

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