Thank you for sharing (and the warning). I’ve never heard of Iris Recruiters but will keep this in mind.
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i have had the same experience with Iris recruiting. Be very wary.
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Copying the job listing into a resume is a great way to get blocked by an ATS.
Fourth Floor does the same thing. Just a big blanket Job Openings post. I noticed right off the bat and stopped responding to them at all
I’ve been called for an interview with agencies a few times for a job I applied to and they have actually literally told me they were just collecting resumes to be ready if a similar real job came to them. Very frustrating as a job seeker thinking I had a real chance. *This was before covid.
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@mamguru I am new to the group so I understand I am late to the convo but the “keyword box” is something new and I will definitely try it. Thanks for posting this.
I’m definitely dating myself, but I had luck with Monster and Hot Jobs when I was starting out. Recently, I have stuck mainly to LinkedIn, Style Careers and Indeed for my job searching. I have worked with recruiters, but most of my jobs have come through direct contact from the hiring company. 4th Floor helped me get a freelance gig about 6 years ago, but I haven’t had any luck getting in touch with them this year or any recruiter I’ve worked with in the past. Good luck!
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Great point. It has been happening to me as well…every job I apply (thinking it’s directly from the company) I get reached out by reqruiters, who I have nothing against for, but they have never, ever managed to place me or someone I know. They are only collecting resumes and information about you but not actually helping in being placed. On the other hand, LinkedIn seems very discriminatory for some reason. They have the best jobs available out there and have applied to hundreds of them but never got an answer from anyone. My profile is pretty decent but seems like they discriminate a lot (I am non-american).
Believe it or not; the place where I have been able to find successful freelancing roles to be able to support myself during this time, is Craigslist. There is a lot out there, but if you take the time to look deeper into it, there are jobs and gigs that are legit.
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i am also finding Google Jobs is helpful, once you put all of your search criteria in, and be sure to do alerts immediately. I’ve gotten alerts for jobs that didnt get an alert got on linkedin 1-2 days prior.
LinkedIn I would half agree is great! I feel like I’ve almost exhausted the use of it at times. These days networking with people isn’t as easy as it use to be. I’ve have good chats with people to have most of those just suddenly back out of meeting to discuss opportunities in more depth.
Also what are you to do when some recruiters want you to make your already good, rewritten and experienced resume showing all your skills/jobs more tailored for a job. I’ve explained the problem with this now is LinkedIn. Just recently an HR person talked to me and was putting me through to the next steps only to let me know the next week that they are going forward with other candidates that are better tailored for the job. However, I did see that the creative director viewed my profile on LinkedIn before the email. So did I look like I was truthful now or etc. and never got an interview to speak on my background. All good.
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I have noticed yesterday after speaking with a recruiter that wanted me to tailor my resume that a lot of people took their job descriptions off of LinkedIn. He asked me to look a LinkedIn to help reword my resume to reflect that of the ones he received and I couldn’t. I. plan to remove my job descriptions from linked in but I am hesitant. I will call him again to see if he has any other suggestions.
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@Pinky, I feel the same. It was like that looooong before COVID. It was like StyleCareers was a dumping ground for job postings that were already filled from within, but needed to have a “public” offering to fulfill some legal anti-discrimination obligation.
@hosbrook41, companies have to pay $299 to list a job on StyleCareers.com. No company does that in order to avoid anti-discrimination obligations. 
I have had good experiences overall with Linkedin and Stylecareers. However, there are some recruiters on Stylecareers (and Linkedin) that repeatedly list the same jobs that never seem to get filled.
I have not had good results from Indeed and Fourth Floor has been a waste of time.
I have had very good results on Stylecareers when I have placed ads to fill positions.
Of course, this current period is an aberration since there are so few job opportunities.
I can only refer to my pre-2020 experiences.
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I’m all for tailoring your resume to help better fit a job posting, and get past the BOTS, but I always hate when Recruiters ask you to re-work/take things off/add things to your resume, and I am even more leery when they do it for me. (And yes, they do it)
Sometimes- well, quite often, in these times, your actual title doesn’t match everything you do at your job. Linked In is about YOUR professional career, and should be about the breadth of your experience that sometimes isn’t summed up in a resume.
Suppose you’re an associate designer, and you do all that stuff (sketching, tech packs, lapdip approvals, etc) but now in the age of many companies trying to save a buck, you also are sending out fit comments (because you are down a tech designer) and you are writing fabric PO’s, and you are also booking the e-com models and holding the light reflector at the photoshoots and bringing earrings/jewelry/shoes from your own closet to accessorize the shoot, and you also present at sales meetings and tradeshows, because you’re at a small company and it’s all hands on deck. And then you start interviewing at a larger company where they really are only asking for the sketching/lapdip/techpack stuff. So you might want to condense/tailor your resume for the position… but Linked In is a great place to have all your “extra” skills and details.
I’ve had recruiters “tailor” my resume themselves, and there is nothing worse than going into an interview, seeing a resume that someone has altered, and then try to downplay your past roles, or even worse, upsell some things that aren’t quite true. Honesty is the best policy here. Light editing and grammar/formatting is one thing- altering your experience is quite a different thing. And who knows- a lot of in-house recruiters are perusing linked in nowadays- it’s how I found my current job- and so having your special skill set may be just what they are looking for!
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thanks for the response I have been looking for a new role for almost a year now and feeling kinda hopeless. I’ll keep updating my resume hopefully something comes through for me.
As a recent grad, I’ve reached out to a bunch of Alums from my school in NY, and I got NO reply. I wonder if people just don’t really reply to new grads (ppl with little experiences), or was even convinced ppl in the fashion industry just don’t help out. Then again, that was in the height of Covid back in Sept / Oct 2020, maybe things were very bad then!
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I reference LinkedIn and it’s good to network. I also check out malakye.com, indeed.con, outdoorindustryjobs.com, core77 and https://us.fashionjobs.com/
Recruiters are a hit or miss, hope they clean up their act and not ghost people as much as they do. They need some kind of courtesy training
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I most recently had a recruiter, dress me in the email by another name, the subject of the email wasn’t something I was interested in, and then once I read the email I was interested, so I had to clarify all of the above first. Then I had one just looking out for the client, not me, whatever they wanted, I had to do. What happened to recruiters? where did the good ones go?
I do, been trying to get something through them but nothing yet