A phone call recorded verbatim, received this morning at about 10am:

Recruitment Consultant: Morning, ****, I've just found your details online and am wondering whether you are still looking for work.

Me: Yep.

Recruitment Consultant: What type of roles are you looking for?

Me: Well, like it says on my profile online, I'm looking for part-time work in Learning and Development.

Recruitment Consultant: So you're not looking for full-time work then?

Me: Well, no, not at all.

Recruitment Consultant: Well, I'm currently recruiting for a full-time role based in London. Would you be interested in that?

Me: Well, no, of course I wouldn't. I'm looking for work in Leeds, and part-time work at that.

Recruitment Consultant: So you wouldn't be interested in the role I'm working on then?

Me: Given the type of role and the location are both unsuitable, I'm going to have to say "not interested in the slightest".

Recruitment Consultant: Oh. Well, how about you e-mail me if you change your mind?

Me: How about you e-mail me if you actually have any jobs that might actually be relevant for me?

Recruitment Consultant (sounding utterly unconvinced): Ok.

They then hung up the phone without another word. Didn't bother with "thanks for your time", or even with a "bye".

I can appreciate it is difficult to find decent candidates - in my wayward and misspent youth, I worked in recruitment, so I have a lot of empathy with consultants in some respects. But honest to fuck, that empathy disappears when they don't bother to read what I've put on my various online profiles about my job search. A part-time job in Leeds is clearly different to a full-time job in London. While the place names both begin with an "L", I can assure you that there are hundreds of miles separating the two locations. And that's not counting the fact that I only want to work for part of the week, not all of it.

Assuming that recruitment consultants actually have the ability to read what is on websites, I'd urge them to think about why their potential candidates write things on their profiles. It isn't for shits and giggles; it is to inform recruiters and potential employers about what they are willing to do. And, Mr and Ms Recruitment Consultant, to ignore that is arrogant and dismissive - it sounds, whatever the intentions, like you just can't be arsed to read what someone has taken the time to write. And when you make a call without reading the information I post on my profile, you run the risk of wasting your time and, far more importantly, my time as well.

Wankers.