Just had the weirdest phone call...

asim18

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Girl: Can I speak to Asim please
Me: Speaking
Girl: Hi I'm talking from IT you applied to a position. Sorry for calling you so late.
Me: Which position was that
Girl: Umm........ I'm looking at your CV you currently work for ********. Where is that is that in London.
Me: Yes it's in London.
Girl: OK can you tell me what your roles were.
Me: We have a dozen or so clients with around 50 users each, having to support on site, over telephone and remote support. I also help manage their servers.
Girl: Good keep talking.
Me: Sorry, are you a recruiter for the company?
Girl: Yes, I'm from the HR.
Me: Do you know what Citrix is.
Girl: No sorry I don't know what that is, I just want you to keep talking about things you have done, any challenging technical things you've fixed.
Me: Why should I keep talking if you don't know what I'm talking about.
Girl: Uhmmm. I think we shouldn't carry on.
Me: No no please.

*Beep*

7PM from a mobile number, bloody weird or what?

I never applied to anything, but I do have my CV on Reed.
 
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headhunters, told to pick up tags

had this a few years back, middle of the night on a job, got a call asking me my current salary, and how they would increase it etc
 
I've had this before but the bloke knew what he was talking about and it turned out to be genuine. I was offered a better job than I have now but they wanted me to relocate, at my cost, to Manchester. Having only just bought our first house (and a very good one, too) and not wishing to have to find the other half a new job, a new house etc. I declined.

It wasn't as weird as the call you received though, the chap was very open about who he was and who he represented.
 
Cold calling by a recruiter who has a bunch of CVs for people in your company (via linked in or other sites). They are building a profile of who does what at the company so they can then try to approach someone senior and place people there for commission.
 
kwerk said:
Ever heard the term 'corporate espionage'?
Click to expand...

Damn. I could have easily turned the tables when she didn't know what Citrix was.

Could have made up a load of cobblers, like we use a software called "Kwerk" to do this and platinum87 for server grade antivirus, etc. :D
 
Standard recruiter call IMO. They call out of the blue, leave messages, send texts and emails and talk about basically nothing, only wanting to know if you are a) human b) vaguely competent.
 
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