I have been applying to various hospitals as I see jobs I am interested in. I had never tried job search companies before, so I signed up for Monster, Indeed, and Zip recruiter. That turns out to have been a mistake on my part.
My phone won’t stop ringing with calls and text messages, and my email box is inundated with recruiters trying to offer me jobs that I am not interested in, with many of them being jobs I am not qualified for. Most of the people sending them have Indian names. It goes like this: “I just reviewed your impressive resume, and I have a job I think perfectly suits you. One of my clients is looking for” then the job title is totally inappropriate- things like Physician, Neuro Surgeon, Physician Assistant. There are also the offers for night shift jobs in Indiana or New Mexico. I have gotten calls to sell insurance on commission, and even to be a night shift janitorial supervisor. Why are they wasting my time and their own?
It’s a pain in the ass. Avoid those three companies like the plague.
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Honk Honk · December 18, 2025 at 1:59 pm
It is AI slop? It is fun to play spot the slop especially on Tube.
Steve S6 · December 18, 2025 at 5:41 pm
Not just those 3. Happens with all of them because they allow recruiters not just direct hiring companies. I hope you used a alias email account that you can close. Phone is a killer though. Even once you close and “delete” you account there it will still happen. I’ve had (mostly) Indian recruiters pull my resume from those a decade later.
Divemedic · December 18, 2025 at 6:44 pm
I have an email I use just for job searches
John in Indy · December 18, 2025 at 7:57 pm
Thanks for the info. I suspected as much, but confirmation is great.
Steady Steve · December 18, 2025 at 9:01 pm
The pajeet recruiters are scams. If they hook you they”ll try to milk some ridiculous fee out of you to “guarantee” a job. And then disappear. Have you considered doing travel nurse? Do your 6 or so weeks, make bank, and take a rest while job searching in between rotations.
Botan · December 19, 2025 at 12:38 pm
I have an engineering degree and over 20 years of experience doing contract/consulting in the pharmaceutical industry. I constantly get position offers from “H1B” agencies for positions 3000 miles from my home for positions that wouldn’t cover my travel expenses, i.e. $45/hr for a position on the West Coast. I have found H1B agencies offering low wage positions they are getting from “legitimate” US agencies. I suspect the US agencies get low wage positions from clients that don’t want to pay adequate rates but don’t want to “offend” the client even though they know they can’t get anybody for the rate and farm it out to the H1B agencies. Then present the H1B agencies findings (if any) to the client with “this is what you get for what is being offered”. I have found H1B agencies that will screw over their own people.
Divemedic · December 19, 2025 at 1:50 pm
The same happens in healthcare. They offer a job for far less than market. When there are no takers, they claim that there are no qualified applicants. This allows them to go to H1B workers. It’s nothing more than legal maneuvering.
Steve · December 20, 2025 at 8:48 pm
To your point:
Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified applicants, and the steps they go through to disqualify even the most qualified Americans in order to secure green cards for H-1B workers.
Link
Jonathan · December 19, 2025 at 6:33 pm
I haven’t used normal job searches for over 15 years (government employee) and I still get occasional emails about jobs in a part of the country I have no intention of returning to.
I occasionally get emails about non relevant positions, like the guy who emailed me several times about a business maintaining gym equipment.
There are too many people working off old lists and bad data in many industries – what worries me is when they make legal or financial decisions with bad data; it already happens in some situations.
Sadly, I see all of this as a part of the lessening of moral fiber and ethics in our country.
Big Daddy · December 23, 2025 at 6:31 am
There must be a doctor with the same name as me. Every few months I’ll get a text from a recruiter offering a locum job at a hospital in my state. Mind you, I keep my Basic EMT up since I own a farm with lots of dangerous stuff, but the real medical brain in the house is my ex-ED nurse wife who is working on her doctorate now. But I show her the text and tell her she has to call me Doctor now. Hey, somebody else thinks I am!
Tl\dr healthcare recruiting is a soup sandwich.
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