How To Get a Recruiter to Stop Calling!

If you are getting endless calls from recruiters, then you might want to stop them from calling you. The constant calls from recruiters can drive a person mad.

But before you start out and get too upset and start demanding that the recruiter stop calling you, it’s a better idea to ask yourself why exactly the recruiters are calling you in the first place.

It might strike you as unusually for a recruiter to call you over and over again, but if you were to stop and think about the situation, then you’d come to understand why a recruiter might be calling you over and over.

And once you understand why a recruiter is calling you repeatedly, you can usually solve the problem and get them to stop if that is your goal.

Why Are Recruiters Calling You?

The first thing to do is to determine why the recruiter is calling you. To understand that it’s important to have a working idea of how recruiters work and make money.

A recruiter is not going to call you just to amuse themselves. Most recruiters have no interest in talking to anyone unless they think that they can make money off of them.

If a recruiter is calling you, then they think that they can make money off of you. This means that the recruiter thinks that they can place you in a job.

Recruiters need to make placements, they are not there to case manage people who won’t make them money. Case managers are paid to handle people who can’t work, are not able to work, or simply refuse to work. Recruiters, on the other hand, make money by finding the best talent for companies who want to hire executives or -if they work in nurse recruiting or in social service staffing—by working with difficult to handle personal in the medical trades.

A recruiter is calling you for one of the following reasons. There are no exceptions to this list:

• They want to discuss a job
• You are working with them, and they need to follow up about an interview

That is it. There are no other reasons why a recruiter would want to speak with you on the phone.

If you are a IT professional, and a recruiter works on Marketing and Public Relations roles, they would never call you. They would only call you if they have an opening that they will be able to fill.

There are no recruiters who simply call to discuss what a person is looking for out of curiosity. That’s simply not how staffing in general. The aim of staffing, and recruiters, is to find people who will be hired for their clients.

A mistake many people make is to think that recruiters are case managers who will listen to what sort of jobs they want and then find those jobs for them. This is simply a misunderstanding of how recruiting and staffing works.

If you want someone to listen to you and give you guidance, then you need to pay for a career counselor. Recruiters won’t call you to discuss your future plans. The only reason that a recruiter is calling you is that they think that they can make money on you.

Is it One Recruiter Calling You or Many?

The likelihood of multiple recruiters calling you is very slim unless you are in the medical trades. Nurses, techs, and other medical staff routinely are recruiters very heavily. The reason is that hospitals and clinics are always searching for staff.

The turnover in nursing staff and other medical personal is very high. In the medical world, a nurse can quit a job and stay out of work for months and then find work immediately as soon as they return to the job search.

The ability of medical professionals to simply find work as soon as they want has caused the industry to have very high turnovers.

Because of this high turnover, and the low standard of many of the people who work in the medical work –there is constant firing and quitting and therefore constant hiring.

Nurses and other medical staffing personnel therefore are often going to be called over and over again.  There is always a need to hire medical staff.

Once a nurse or medical personal puts their resume online by applying to an ad on a job posting site, then that resume and contact information is available online. Multiple databases exist where nurses contact information is sold and resold. This is why a nurse who placed their resume online will continue to get calls from foreign Indian recruiters even ten years after the job posting has expired.

If you only have a single recruiter calling you, and you are not a medical professional, then that recruiter has a real job and they think that you are someone who can fill the role.

When recruiters reach out to medical personal like nurses, they know that they will have to speak to dozens and dozens of nurses to find one who will follow through.

But when a recruiter is working on a professional role, they spend more time reviewing the resume and looking at the persons experience. A recruiter won’t reach out of to multiple people for a white collar professional role.

Unlike a nursing role where anyone with a nursing license can work the job, professional jobs require specific experience and expertise and reviewing a resume is the first step. This is why having a good resume written up is crucial for professionals seeking work.

If a single recruiter is calling you, then it’s a sign that you are important to them and they have a job that they think you could do. They might be calling you at work, or when you are busy and are trying to get you on the phone.

Obviously, if the recruiter who is calling you has communicated with you before either in email or LinkedIn, then you know what sort of message thy probably want to communicate. They either:

• Want to discuss a job offer that they mentioned in the email
• They want to discuss an interview you had
• They want to review details before or after a job interview

If you’ve never spoken or communicated with the recruiter before, then the only reason that they are calling you is to discuss a potential job opening. If you are not interested, you should inform them of this. Either a text or an email will do. You do not have to speak to every recruiter who calls you.

If you miss a recruiters call, you should call them back if you are looking for work. If you don’t want to hear about the job then just text them an update.

Have You Asked The Recruiter To Stop Calling?

If you have asked the recruiter to stop calling you, then that will be enough. There are no reasons for a recruiter to continue to call you if you’ve made it clear that you are not interested in work.

Some recruiters will call people multiple times if they are not getting any response, but as soon as you either text, email, or call the recruiter and tell them that you are not interested in work then the story is over.

There are do not call lists that temp agencies and recruiting agencies keep on hand, but you do not want to get your name in these databases. The reason is that these individuals are noted as poor candidates and people who cannot perform up to standard on working assignments and who can’t be trusted on a job placement.

People who are listed on the do not call list or do not contact list are people who will never find work through that recruiting agency. The people who run these agencies and the recruiter who work there will not call them, but what’s more important to note, they won’t ever work with them in the future.

Suppose someone is not looking for work currently. The proper idea would be to tell the recruiter that you are not currently looking for work. If you tell the recruiter that you want to be placed on a do not call list, then should you ever want to find work in the future, you won’t be able to do so through that agency. They will have marked you as a do not contact and do not use.

And because agencies share do not contact lists and recruiters move from agency to agency and keep lists of do not use candidates, it’s an extremely bad idea to ever tell a recruiter to remove your name from their database.

The fact is that a recruiter won’t ever remove your name from their database. What they will do is mark you as someone who should never be used for work.

Why Would Recruiters Call You Over and Over?

Recruiters would only call you over and over for three  reasons.

• You are already working with them and they need to speak with you to confirm an interview time with the client.
• You had an interview and they want to follow up regarding the outcome of the interview.
• You work in the medical field as a nurse or other medical personnel and they need to fill a role. If you are a medical worker, then you will be contacted constantly by any number of nurse recruiters.

 Hospitals and clinics always need nurses and other staff due to medical staff being fired, terminated for disciplinary actions, quitting for travel assignments, or losing their licenses. The turnover is huge in nursing.

The difficulty in getting into contact with someone and discussing a role with them is one of the many reasons why companies use recruiters. It saves them the time and headache of dealing with dozzens of unqualifed and irresponsible people.

Hiding Your Resume From Online Recruiters

If you don’t want to be contacted by recruiters , then you will have to find a way for them to not have your contact information. The best way to do this is to use LinkedIn for job connections.

If you submit your resume to an online job posting site, then your contact information will be shared with multiple databases and once the staffing agency has your contact information, it’s forever in circulation.

Professionals use LinkedIn. It’s not common for a professional to use a job posting site like Indeed or Craigslist or Hari. Those job posting sites are used for manual labor roles, social service case worker roles , non profit roles, and medical work. But a company that wants a professional employee is going to look to LinkedIn.

Nurses and other medical staff are not professionals, so they might not feel comfortable working with LinkedIn or using a professional networking service.

However, once you upload a resume online to a database, your contact information is captured and will be used for years to come.