The short answer is, I enjoy meeting people, especially new people.
Unfortunately, I don't have 2 to 3 hours of free time per caller.
The long answer is...
Ideally I'd like to meet
everyone who contacts me, however other
commitments and a large volume of calls
and e-mail messages I receive don't
allow for this. I receive up to 15 calls
and e-mails per day, but don't have 2 to
3 hours of free time for every caller.
Let's make sure there is no misunderstanding
between you and me. I'd love to drop everything and
meet you as soon as you disal my number. Recruiters
are especially fun and easy to
meet because they tend to have good people
skills. I enjoy meeting people,
especially new people.
Unfortunately, I don't have 2 to 3 hours
of free time per caller.
San Jose area customer:
If you have a San Jose area customer who wants to
meet me face-to-face, then I'll be happy to meet you at the same time or -
what is usually more practical - meet you right before I meet your customer.
Why would you like to meet me, face to face?
- Because you want to ask a couple of questions? On the phone
you can ask the very same questions!
- Because you believe how I look is important? Are you concerned about my manners? Do
you want to see the clothes I wear? No problem. I can e-mail
you a picture or two, usually within 24 hours.
- Because you're concerned about your fee, and you feel that
getting my signature is more important than anything else?
No problem. If you e-mail your forms to me, and your forms
aren't in conflict with sections 10, 17, 21, 31, and 39, then I'll
make sure that you get my signature, usually within 24
hours. The same holds true for regular mail, except that it takes a
little longer.
- Because you believe we could spend more time together,
if we met face-to-face?
Unfortunately, I found that the actual time I used to spend with recruiters,
in face-to-face meetings, was no more than 5 minutes per recruiter.
The remainder of those 3-hours per face-to-face meeting,
was spend fighting traffic, searching for hard to find
physical addresses and parking spaces, and filling out
complicated, multi-page forms with questions that he
could have asked from me, while we were on the phone,
and well before our face to face meeting.
- Because you cannot make up your mind? If a recruiter is able
to read my resume, view my standard answers to my FAQs, and
interview me on the phone for 5 to 10 minutes, and if after
all this he still cannot decide whether or not there
is a reasonably good skills match, then he shouldn't be
representing me. Time is my most valuable commodity.
Please do not waste it.
To sum it up, the majority of
recruiters are real professionals and they want to work with me.
If you're in the minority, and you cannot work with me,
then I cannot work with you. There are too many agencies and
contract staffing firms out there for me to play games with
a smart person who wants to play games with my time, life and
paycheck.