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[quote=Anonymous]A recruiter who submitted my resume for a corporate job called me and asked if I would call a contact of mine at the company myself and tell them about my resume.  I think this is so odd and out of bounds.  Am I right?

Here are the details:  A couple of months ago, the recruiter called me about a corporate job and asked me if I had been in contact with the company.  I had been in contact with a senior level person at that company myself (not specifically about the recruiter's job opening).  Initially, I thought that would be the end of the process and that the recruiter wouldn't be interested in working with me.  I gave the details of the very preliminary meeting I had with the senior person.  Recruiter tells me it's fine and that the job is in a different division, so there's no conflict.  Fine.  Well, out of the blue, recruiter calls and tells me that the senior exec. is actually the one ultimately responsible for the job after all and that it isn't in a different division.  (This was news to me b/c recruiter had specifically indicated this was not the case --and it is a very big company, so there was no reason to think there would be overlap.)  In fact, had I been told the job was in the sr. exec's division I wouldn't have allowed the recruiter to submit me (b/c I'm more interested in pursuing a different type of opportunity in that division).

The recruiter also asks me to reach out to senior exec and tell him that a recruiter has submitted me for this job etc.

Is this something anyone would do?  I really didn't want my contact in the company and the pursuit of this recruiter-job to overlap.  I feel like it puts me in a bad position with the senior exec (who I know personally through friends).  In other words, I think it looks like I submitted myself for a job in his group and wasn't open about it.  In addition, I think that long-term the exec might have better more fitting opportunities for me and this recruiter-job was more of a fall-back-job.  I don't want to go full blast and use my chit with the exec. for this particular job.

I'm feeling manipulated by the recruiter basically.  I think now any contact I have with the exec. will now look like it is related to the recruiter (and therefore make me less-desireable b/c of the fees etc.) even though that isn't the case.  My instinct is not to call the exec. and not to mention the recruiter job and ask the recruiter to pull my resume.  Does anyone agree or do you think I'm overreacting?

Thoughts?[/quote]

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