Who is Mike McCarthy and why does he want to find me a job?
Who is Mike McCarthy?
There's this guy, Mike McCarthy. He expresses a high level of interest regarding my employment situation. He's a good dude. Frequently he emails me to remind me of his job-hunting service. What a pal he is. Recently he sent me this sincere solicitation:
Hi nicomp,
Please check your resume for these mistakes and then resubmit it.
Improperly formatted name and contact information.
A missing or poorly worded Career Summary section.
Lack of clarity and readability.
Using a common or over-used template.
Inflating skills and experience.
Missing industry and profession-specific terminology.
Including clichés. Too many or too few bullets. Highlighting duties instead of achievements.
Poor grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure.
Post here. (Mike sent me a link: I removed it)
Best,
Mike McCarthy
Phone: 312.277.1986
McSourcer Recruiting and Staffing
40 E. Chicago Ave. Suite 131
Chicago, IL60611
Every so often I'll write back to Mike. After reading his heartfelt expressions of concern the least I can do is keep the lines of communication open. Mike shouldn't feel as if this relationship is one-sided.
I Googled his telephone number: The first hit was consumerfraudreporting.org, which made me slightly queasy. Could Mike be scamming me?
I Googled his company. The first hit was again consumerFraudReporting.org. Uh Oh.
What's Mike up to?
I mapped his office address. It's an impressive-looking location, just 5 blocks from North Lake Shore Drive. It's in a nest of high-rise office blocks.
After much soul searching during commercials between The View segments, I reached the agonizing conclusion that I needed to sever ties with Mike. To my knowledge he's not actually found me a job. In all honesty I don't think he's offered me a referral. I've dealt with head-hunters; they glom on to me with both tentacles. No self-respecting head-hunter (oxymoron?) would continue to send me unsolicited email without at least a follow up phone call. They want to know I exist. I want to know they exist.
On September 29th, I sent Mike this heartrending message:
PLEASE stop spamming me. You are in violation of the CAN-SPAM act and I will report you shortly if you insist on bothering me.
I may have ruined his day; he responded with this:
Hi nicomp,
Put yourself in pole position for the January hiring blitz by getting some interviews before the break.
Post Resume Here (Mike sent me a link: I removed it)
Regards,
Mike McCarthy
Phone: 312.277.1986
McSourcer Recruiting and Staffing
40 E. Chicago Ave. Suite 131
Chicago, IL 60611
Poor Mike. He was crushed to the extent that he couldn't bear to run his spell checker or proofread his message for grammar. I hope he's OK.
If you know Mike or you've dealt with him, please give him my best.
