Originally Posted by Your buddies at JB

ATTENTION ATTENTION!!!!

This is one of those evil JB hunt recruiters that likes to come out here and laugh on occasion. I havent been out here in awhile but I thought I would come out here and fill you all in on something.

Recently our recruiting dept has been hired by outside companies. In otherwords we JB recruiters are now recruiting for many different companies. These are companies that dont compete with our company.

The reason i tell you this is because I know a lot of you drivers like to hang up on us when we call. Just want to fill you in that the next time you hang up on us, you might be missing out on your dream job.
Example: The job Im trying to fill now is a local tanker position that pays 70K per year. To let you know how good this one job is....I have put tons of ads out there and talked to at least 50 drivers...I have NOT YET talked to a driver who didnt beg me for that position. However, with good jobs comes pretty strict qualifications for that job...so its a little harder to find qualified drivers.
Those who have had us remove you off our call lise, I guess you are SOL.

Thanks for your attention....feel free to go back to your regular griping about every company out there.

Yall have fun....and once again you can block me

Originally Posted by Your buddies at JB

ATTENTION ATTENTION!!!!

This is one of those evil JB hunt recruiters that likes to come out here and laugh on occasion. I havent been out here in awhile but I thought I would come out here and fill you all in on something.

Recently our recruiting dept has been hired by outside companies. In otherwords we JB recruiters are now recruiting for many different companies. These are companies that dont compete with our company.

The reason i tell you this is because I know a lot of you drivers like to hang up on us when we call. Just want to fill you in that the next time you hang up on us, you might be missing out on your dream job.
Example: The job Im trying to fill now is a local tanker position that pays 70K per year. To let you know how good this one job is....I have put tons of ads out there and talked to at least 50 drivers...I have NOT YET talked to a driver who didnt beg me for that position. However, with good jobs comes pretty strict qualifications for that job...so its a little harder to find qualified drivers.
Those who have had us remove you off our call lise, I guess you are SOL.

Thanks for your attention....feel free to go back to your regular griping about every company out there.

Yall have fun....and once again you can block me

Originally Posted by RedBeard

I tried repeatedly to get removed from your list. I'm afraid I can't afford to take the cut in pay rate and the cut in miles I would get if I were to go drive for JB Hunt.

However, I still get the occasional call from JB recruiters. I bought a nice little handheld sports horn, the kind that is also a United States Coast Guard approved sounding device for boats up to 65 feet. It's at least twice as loud as the Screamin' Meanie alarms you see in truckstops. Over water, it can be heard half a mile away. When I get a call from JB recruiter scum, I grab that horn, put the microphone from my handsfree headset about half an inch from the horn's business end, and do my best to make their ears bleed. It doesn't stop the calls, but it does provide a nice diversion from the daily grind.

Originally Posted by MasterRecruiter

I was a recruiter, but yes, JB has investigators in the recruiting dept too.
basically it went like this:
Step 1: You talked to a recruiter like me. I was supposed to "pre-qualify" the driver by asking him all sorts of questions. We didnt do any sort of investigating. If a driver says hes "qualified" we simply believe him and pass him on.
Step 2: The driver goes to the scheduler. Who is again supposed to ask all the annoying questions the recruiter asked to pre-qualify again. The scheduler has a lot more information in front of him about the driver and its a little easier for them to see if the driver is lying about somethings in his qualifications. But if the driver gets past the scheduler, he or she is given an orientation date. This by all means does not mean that are even close to being hired.
Step 3: It goes to the investigations dept. They will run all their information which may or may not be before they show up to orientation. From what I understand from being there so long, it cost a lot of money to run all DAC, MVR and Criminal. Someone higher up figured out long ago that it actually saves money to run a lot of the stuff after someone shows up to orientation. Mainly because about 75% of the people you schedule for orientation dont show up anyway. Yes, that policy sucks for some drivers and a lot of drivers get sent home from orientation. But, I can tell you from experience that the vast majority of people who get sent home from orientation knew about what was on their DAC, Criminal or MVR before orientation...they just lied about it.
Recruiters do not get paid for setting someone up for orientation. They dont get paid for getting someone to orientation. They only get paid when that driver leaves the parking lot driving a truck.
Also, it actually hurts recruiters (although many havent figured this out) to just keep throwing a lot of unqualified drivers to scheduling and investigations. This will only make the schedulers and investigators mad at you and you will find that will hurt the recruiters hiring numbers. And really the schedulars and investigators dont like the recruiters that much anyway because the schedulers and investigators do all the leg work and the recruiters make about 4 times the pay.

Originally Posted by RedBeard

I tried repeatedly to get removed from your list. I'm afraid I can't afford to take the cut in pay rate and the cut in miles I would get if I were to go drive for JB Hunt.

However, I still get the occasional call from JB recruiters. I bought a nice little handheld sports horn, the kind that is also a United States Coast Guard approved sounding device for boats up to 65 feet. It's at least twice as loud as the Screamin' Meanie alarms you see in truckstops. Over water, it can be heard half a mile away. When I get a call from JB recruiter scum, I grab that horn, put the microphone from my handsfree headset about half an inch from the horn's business end, and do my best to make their ears bleed. It doesn't stop the calls, but it does provide a nice diversion from the daily grind.

Originally Posted by RedBeard

I tried repeatedly to get removed from your list. I'm afraid I can't afford to take the cut in pay rate and the cut in miles I would get if I were to go drive for JB Hunt.

However, I still get the occasional call from JB recruiters. I bought a nice little handheld sports horn, the kind that is also a United States Coast Guard approved sounding device for boats up to 65 feet. It's at least twice as loud as the Screamin' Meanie alarms you see in truckstops. Over water, it can be heard half a mile away. When I get a call from JB recruiter scum, I grab that horn, put the microphone from my handsfree headset about half an inch from the horn's business end, and do my best to make their ears bleed. It doesn't stop the calls, but it does provide a nice diversion from the daily grind.

Originally Posted by MasterRecruiter

To borrow a line from the great Messiah Obama...."Those types of decisions were above my pay grade". JB Hunt is one of the most profitable trucking companies out there. Dont you think that right there tells you that they know what they are doing?

They dont always wait until orientation to completely run the background check. But it does happen quite a bit. In the many years that was there, I could never tell when they were going to run it all before hand or when they wouldnt. So sometimes you just had to take the word of the driver.
In reality, it shouldnt be a problem at all. You cant tell me that drivers dont know whats on their record. If by chance they lied to me about it and wasted my time. I really didnt feel bad for them if they quit their jobs and went all the way to orientation and then got sent home. Basically they shouldnt have lied to me. Just like you drivers get pissed with recruiters lie to you, recruiters get pissed with drivers lie to them. It seems to be an endless circle and just part of the industry. Personally, Im glad im out of it.