Precisely. The unemployment rate for IT professionals nationwide is so low that recruiting agencies are resorting to calling into peoples' workplaces to try and drum up candidates for jobs.
I was a recruiter for a recruiting company up until a few weeks ago. Because of the current job market the higher-ups decided to institute a new policy: if you find someone's resume who'd be qualified for a job but don't have a way to reach them during the day, call into their current employer's main phone line and ask for them. To me, this was a really low thing to do, and in my mind constituted invasion of an individual's right to privacy.
So I left the recruiting company and let them put me back to work in IT, where I came from (for almost $20k more than I was making when I left IT 6 months ago...the job market in the DC area is a goldmine for developers right now).
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Precisely. The unemployment rate for IT professionals nationwide is so low that recruiting agencies are resorting to calling into peoples' workplaces to try and drum up candidates for jobs. I was a recruiter for a recruiting company up until a few weeks ago. Because of the current job market the higher-ups decided to institute a new policy: if you find someone's resume who'd be qualified for a job but don't have a way to reach them during the day, call into their current employer's main phone line and ask for them. To me, this was a really low thing to do, and in my mind constituted invasion of an individual's right to privacy. So I left the recruiting company and let them put me back to work in IT, where I came from (for almost $20k more than I was making when I left IT 6 months ago...the job market in the DC area is a goldmine for developers right now).