Another Recruiter Sullying Our Good Name

I think Sandra posted a blog a few days ago about an embarrassing email (obviously automated) looking for a lower level candidate sent to a C-level candidate/friend of hers. So naturally a few days later, I got a similar email.

I am 24 years old, 2 years out of college and still in my first job (as a recruiter, which I love). I in no way shape or form even remotely qualify for this position, not to mention I don't have any of the certification requirements. My experience is essentially as a bartender and an intern in college and 1 year as a recruiter.

I am debating sending a response telling her how lazy she must be to not even have read my resume to see if I qualify, but I thought it would be interesting to hear everyone's thoughts on how I should word this (unless you think I should just hit delete and ignore the email altogether). Here is the email:

Megan Flynn

Hello!

HIM Manager / Director Bring your Him or coding experience to one of the leading hospitals in Pennsylvania. Looking for a top HIM/ Coding professional with supervisory experience for the Perm Position. This position will lead to a director level position for the “right person”. This is a great opportunity to work with one of the more innovative hospitals in the country. You will help plan and coordinate all services provided by the Health Information Department. Responsible for supervising and maintaining the Medical Records department including helping with goal setting, planning, policy and procedure development, quality assurance and improvement, and supervision and competency of staff.

Experience: Two years in coding or Health Information Management hospital setting with supervisory / administrative experience required.

Certification: American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) OR Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) Prefer ICD-10 Certification as well

If you are interested in the HIM Manager / Director position, please send your updated resume along with salary history to kathyw@thorgroup.com. Thank You.

Comment by Sandra McCartt on February 25, 2012 at 9:50pm: Oh course we can Megan and we should. We many times have to laugh to keep from biting our tongue with irritation. Which is exactly what this was until we started defending the spammers. The "unprofessional" comment was a cheap shot in my opinion.

Amy's comment pretty much says it all. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Is it important, in the whole scheme of things it's not on the top of the list of things that need to be disinfected. But seriously , consider the number of candidates who are desperetely looking for a job and get hit with this junk over and over. That is why a lot of folks don't like recruiters, think we are all a bunch of low budget, low rent mass mailers. Perhaps a post like this will be seen by some of those who hate recruiters for this very reason. The end result , they will know that there are a lot of recruiters who hate it as much as they do. Is it unprofessional to name the spammers in our industry. I don't think so. Perhaps if we take care of the little things when they happen some of it gets stopped and our industry gets a few kudos for not covering up for the bad actors who cheapen all of us.

If you want to get rid of the Indian spammers. Look up the IP address, send one email to the person whose name is the registered agent telling them you are reporting spam to their ISP. It will stop.