Robocalls used to happen to me weekly and now monthly or less after signing up to the Do Not Call list.
What currently tortures me several times a day is certainly some sort of legal grey area, but mostly legal. I have Indian IT recruiters calling me several times a day for positions irrelevant to my job role and also in remote locations (I am US-based and it's a very large country, the US, for leisurely moving from the coasts to the Midwest). Here's why I think there's something fishy going on:
* They are 100% Indian, sometimes with limited English skills, suggesting that the US number they are calling from is just a reroute. Conversations are strained and you can tell they read from a script.
* The emails they send before they call contain a specific template that, even though they represent numerous different companies/agencies, the 'This is not spam' type disclaimer (starts with Please allow us to reiterate we chose to contact you because you had your profile online..) is IDENTICAL. The other thing that is identical is the Unsubscribe link, which takes you to the same templated page, with yet another agency name filled in.
* The positions always say, US citizens and green card holders only.
My conclusion: H1B employers are utilizing phone and email spam via Indian call centers to justify having advertised the positions in order to be able to fulfill the legal requirement. What better way than to contact someone in Boston or New York for a low paying role in Lansing, MI or Dayton, OH or whatnot.
> My conclusion: H1B employers are utilizing phone and email spam via Indian call centers to justify having advertised the positions in order to be able to fulfill the legal requirement.
The legal requirement is usually fulfilled by ploacing an ad in the classified section of the local newspaper (preferably print only), asking candidates to submit their resume via the mail with a reference number.
So what's your theory as to why this Indian Call Center Recruitment Situation (tm) is so prevalent? One big agency, Mitchell Martin, just got on board. Surely they would know that contacting a NYC or SF resident for a job NOT in NYC or SF but in a small town in Rhode Island, Ohio, Texas, etc. is truly a needle in a haystack? Someone is paying someone else money to get people to talk on the phone with people who live in the former places, to chat about positions in the latter places.
Either the world has gone mad, or there's a business reason for the above discrepancy given how extremely widespread (I say, daily and via numerous agencies) it is.
No idea, I don't think cold calling people about a job meets any advertising requirement (which on further looking actually looks like it's related to sponsoring a green card application, not an H1B).
Perhaps, they're phishing for more information to target scams? I've heard the IRS scams are more effective against immigrants, for example. The caller may not realize that's the purpose for the call.
Could also just be annoy 1000 people, get one positive response, and that's good enough?
What currently tortures me several times a day is certainly some sort of legal grey area, but mostly legal. I have Indian IT recruiters calling me several times a day for positions irrelevant to my job role and also in remote locations (I am US-based and it's a very large country, the US, for leisurely moving from the coasts to the Midwest). Here's why I think there's something fishy going on:
* They are 100% Indian, sometimes with limited English skills, suggesting that the US number they are calling from is just a reroute. Conversations are strained and you can tell they read from a script.
* The emails they send before they call contain a specific template that, even though they represent numerous different companies/agencies, the 'This is not spam' type disclaimer (starts with Please allow us to reiterate we chose to contact you because you had your profile online..) is IDENTICAL. The other thing that is identical is the Unsubscribe link, which takes you to the same templated page, with yet another agency name filled in.
* The positions always say, US citizens and green card holders only.
My conclusion: H1B employers are utilizing phone and email spam via Indian call centers to justify having advertised the positions in order to be able to fulfill the legal requirement. What better way than to contact someone in Boston or New York for a low paying role in Lansing, MI or Dayton, OH or whatnot.
Am I the only one?