All consultants have dealt with the adolescent recruiter. I'm talking about the one who asks you the same questions repeatedly likely because they weren't listening the prior 5 times they asked the same question. Sometimes their sales-driven account managers have their hands in puppet master position, so they're trained to wait to overcome objections about salary, location, and responsibilities instead of listening to what candidates have to say.
Also in the pre-pubescent vain, many recruiters want what they want when they want it and become unbearably impatient when they don't get it. They will ask you to "modify your resume" in order to "fit my client's needs," and when you describe your skills as they relate to the job description, they'll say the words aren't an exact fit and you need to do it again and do it now. How many of you have had the following conversation:
You: Okay, I've added in my specific experience as a web copywriter.
Recruiter: But all this says is that you've written web content in marketing environments.
You: Right.
Recruiter: But I wanted to know about web copywriting.
You: But I just said that...
Recruiter: Why don't you just take out all that stuff about web content and replace it with descriptions of your copywriting experience. And get it to me within a half an hour. My client needs it right away.
Like our youth, the average recruiter can't communicate in synonyms. In fact, you have to be so literal to get their attention that my best advice is to copy and paste the job description into the summary section in your resume. That way, at least the recruiter will be able to rely on the smidgen of knowledge they have and read something they have committed to memory. God forbid they ever have to think for themselves.
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