Today I got a call when I was working at the office. It was a nice woman, lets call her Marjolein, that would like to give me an offer I couldn't refuse. She started her call by telling her name and her company and that she was a headhunter and she was asked by another company to give me a call. As I'm currently working for Wortell and I don't want to change jobs I interrupted her and asked where she got my phone number. She got my name from her large network of people and called the reception.
I told her kindly that I'm not looking for another job at this moment as I am happy working for Wortell. She replied that it wasn't her intention to steal people from other companies but she thought I would be interested in another job. So I was clear and said I wasn't happy with their way of doing business and that I thought she was indeed stealing people from a company. I said that if I would like to get another job I wouldn't need the assistance of a headhunter in general and in particular her company. I would think she would get the message at this point but now she has even the guts to ask me for my private mobile telephone number. Off course I kindly refused to give het my number which made her sound really disappointed. After the call I informed the reception about this phone call. It looks like she called half of our company already. A memo has been sent to all reception desk workers not to handle her calls anymore.
I do get a lot of emails from several headhunters all the time. Most of them 'know' me from linked-in. And most of them have a very good offer, a golden opportunity or something like that. I've never used a headhunter and I will probably never do so. Why use a headhunter, they only make money in selling people and making false promises.