So the other day I’m minding my business when my cell phone rings (not home or office phone) and the woman on the other end asks to speak to “Dr. BayGBM.” I’m immediately suspicious. Is it a sales person? Who else? No one who has my cell phone number calls me “Dr.”
Turns out she is headhunter and wants me to consider a Vice Presidency at a college I’d never heard of (in a state/city I would never live in.) I’ve heard of a lot of universities so the fact that I’d never heard of this place was not encouraging. After her sales pitch, I tell her to email me the info and I’ll look it over...
She encourages me to call with any questions about the position not answered on the campus website or in the email info she is sending along. Before concluding the call, I asked her how she obtained my name and number. She said she was bound by confidentiality and “not allowed to say.” WTF?
Anyhow, would you consider an ideal job in an un-ideal location? Have you dealt with a lot of headhunters before? Like real estate agents, they seem to get paid for doing relatively little work.
