My resume was still loose on the internet.
Dice sent another alert. Monster sent another group of matches. Recruiters used the same profile to send jobs with titles all over the map.
Network administrator. Assistant technical manager. Tutor. Test engineer. Technical support.
The list crossed several levels of responsibility and several kinds of work. Sharing a few technical words was enough to place them in the same batch.
Some were specific Colorado positions. Some looked automatic. A message could say somebody had reviewed my background carefully and then offer work that did not fit it at all.
The matching system had enough words to keep going. Windows. Linux. Server. Network. Storage. Administrator. Director.
I was already the IT director at Beatport. The job was real, and the environment kept getting larger. I still had the resume visible and had applied for extra systems work during the summer.
The visible resume also produced a steady supply of junk.
An alert was not an offer. A recruiter title was not proof that the job existed or matched the experience in my resume.
Many messages were keyword matches with little useful detail.
The alerts came from more than one job board, and recruiter mail added another copy of the same pattern. My name and resume were the common pieces.
The messages kept arriving from saved searches and recruiter databases. I did not answer this group in the thread.
The job boards did not understand the difference between running Beatport's infrastructure and every listing that contained the word “network.” They saw the terms on the page and sent whatever matched.
The resume was available, and the job boards kept matching it.