Job Board Vendor Cold Calls: Is Anyone Growing Weary?

I know that there are very well-intentioned vendors out there with terrific recruiting products to hawk, but there are days when that flashing voicemail light makes me nutty. 'Tis the season of budgeting I know, so the calls come a-flying in. Does anyone have stories they'd like to share similar to my assessment of a job board vendor cold call today?

Comment by Rob McIntosh on December 4, 2007 at 5:29pm: Time to turn the discussion on it's head and change the paradigm

Read my reply to this discussion:

http://www.recruitingblogs.com/forum/topic/show?id=502551%3ATopic%3A29692

Happy to discuss further if you are interested as I am finding I am making the pendulum swing back

Rob

Comment by Steven Rothberg on December 4, 2007 at 8:32pm: As one of the owners of job board CollegeRecruiter.com, I have to look at this from the other side of the fence. We're told by many and perhaps most of our larger clients that they want us to contact them in the late fall. Most of our contacts then prove to be very difficult to reach but are very receptive when we get through.

I suspect that there are a ton of phone messages and voice mails because many aren't returned promptly which leads to multiple calls and messages from the same vendors.