Hey all, I had a bad experience with Selby Jennings similar to the ones that have been posted on here before. A recruiter reached out to me via LinkedIn telling me he'd like to set up a call to discuss a position with a venture capital firm. I accepted and set up the call for the next day, when a younger analyst called me to discuss. She briefly read through what was obviously just a generic job description and couldn't really answer many of my questions past that. She was pushy about me giving her my current comp and telling her which other opportunities I am currently pursuing "so that I know not to send you opportunities with these firms if we get them." I gave her a comp range and the titles of the other roles I was interviewing for, and she said she would follow up the next day with an email containing the job description and so that I would have her contact information. To this day I have not heard anything back from the company.
I just sent a LinkedIn message to the man who initially reached out to me from SJ who is higher up letting him know how poor my experience with the process was and demanded that my information be removed from their database and to never forward my resume to any company. I also specifically mentioned how mining for comp data, misrepresenting positions, and ghosting candidates is an extremely unprofessional way to conduct business and there are plenty of forums online that shed light on this.
Does anyone know whether there is a way for me to report them so that this doesn't happen to other candidates? I'm going to block him on LinkedIn and never engage with SJ again, but I'd be happier knowing they got reported.
Had a similar experience with them recently. Got my resume and they called me up about a job description that sounded pretty good, did not ask me my current comp but what range I expected if I was gonna move. The weirdest part was that they wouldn't tell me the name of the target employer until my resume was sent to them and approved by the person doing their hiring. I explained to them that I've never had a convo with a headhunter who wouldn't tell me the name of the target employer over the phone, and they gave me some line about how it was to ensure there was a fit between the company and candidate before going too deeply into the process. They did ask me who else I'm interviewing with and I declined to tell them. Never heard back after that call, not surprisingly.
Yes, they're scam artists. Do not engage. They exist because so many are desperate.
This is the standard experience with the average recruiter, no surprises here. They work for their clients, not you. Don't give them anything you don't have to, including your past salary and the firms you're talking to. You can give them salary expectations and to check with you the names of firms they are thinking of sending your resume, and if there's overlap YOU will let them know after hearing the list of names. Depends how badly you need a job, I recommend talking to everybody and learning the game.
Remember although some recruiters at senior levels make decent money most of them got into it because they have no other skills. Treat them like a real estate agent, a necessary evil.
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