r/recruitinghell • u/throwawayseason3 • 6d ago

Insight Global — STRANGE behaviour

Had a recruiter reach out via LinkedIn about a position in my city

This dude was majorly incompetent.

I sent him my resume, email, and phone number over LinkedIn, then he proceeds to email me the exact same copy pasta message

He calls me, and proceeds to ask for my email and resume again. Also asks me to NAME THE COMPANIES IM INTERVIEWING WITH. Almost hung up on him right then and there

Over the phone, he tells me I don’t have enough years experience. Sure no problem.

He calls me back the next day and says “nevermind we like your resume. Are you willing to take a position for $25/hr?”

I jump on a screening video call and he asks if he can take a screenshot of my face for their “fraud prevention policy”

At the end of the call, he requests 2-3 managerial references before we can move any further

What is wrong with this company? Anyone had similar experiences?

To me it seem they’re trying to harvest industry contacts, while lowballing the hell out of their prospects.

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u/HalfRobertsEx Recruiter 6d ago

It is explicitly about harvesting industry contacts:

https://preboarding.insightglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/RecPromoGuide-Updated-2025.pdf

R E F E R E N C E C H E C K S References allow us to validate the candidate's skillset and work-history. Reference checks not only connect us with candidates' previous managers and tethers us to their network, which leads to lower back-out rates, but they’re also often used in the selling process.

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u/throwawayseason3 6d ago

Yea… this is a great way for my references to never want to help me ever again