Who is Mike McCarthy and why does he want to find me a job?
74Who is Mike McCarthy?
There's this guy, Mike McCarthy. He expresses a high level of interest regarding my employment situation. Frequently he emails me to remind me of his job-hunting service. What a pal he is. Recently he sent me this sincere solicitation:
Hi nicomp,
Please
check your resume for these mistakes and then resubmit
it.
Improperly
formatted name and contact information.
A missing
or poorly worded Career Summary section.
Lack of
clarity and readability.
Using a
common or over-used template.
Inflating
skills and experience.
Missing
industry and profession-specific terminology.
Including
clichés. Too many or
too few bullets. Highlighting duties instead of achievements.
Poor
grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure.
Post here. (Mike sent me a link: I removed it)
Best,
Mike
McCarthy
Phone: 312.277.1986
McSourcer Recruiting and
Staffing
40 E. Chicago Ave.
Suite 131
Chicago, IL60611
Every so often I'll write back to Mike. After reading his heartfelt expressions of concern the least I can do is keep the lines of communication open. Mike shouldn't feel as if this relationship is one-sided.
I Googled his telephone number: The first hit was consumerfraudreporting.org, which made me slightly queasy. Could Mike be scamming me?
I Googled his company. The first hit was again consumerFraudReporting.org. Uh Oh.
What's Mike up to?
I mapped his office address. It's an impressive-looking location, just 5 blocks from North Lake Shore Drive. It's in a nest of high-rise office blocks.
After much soul searching during commercials between The View segments, I reached the agonizing conclusion that I needed to sever ties with Mike. To my knowledge he's not actually found me a job. In all honesty I don't think he's offered me a referral. I've dealt with head-hunters; they glom on to me with both tentacles. No self-respecting head-hunter (oxymoron?) would continue to send me unsolicited email without at least a follow up phone call. They want to know I exist. I want to know they exist.
On September 29th, I sent Mike this heartrending message:
PLEASE stop spamming me. You are in violation of the CAN-SPAM act and I will report you shortly if you insist on bothering me.
I may have ruined his day; he responded with this:
Hi nicomp,
Put youself in pole position for the January hiring blitz by getting some interviews before the break.
Post Resume Here (Mike sent me a link: I removed it)
Regards,
Mike McCarthy
Phone: 312.277.1986
McSourcer Recruiting and
Staffing
40 E. Chicago Ave. Suite 131
Chicago, IL 60611
Poor Mike. He was crushed to the extent that he couldn't bear to run his spell checker or proofread his message for grammar. I hope he's OK.
If you know Mike or you've dealt with him, please give him my best.
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yeah those international check cashers too,.
I guess it's just the Chicago way.(8D)
We could introduce Mike to Greg the realtor who simply won't stop trying to sell me land. Perhaps they are related.
Very nicely written hub. Mike McCarthy may just be a bot sending out emails. I would recommend marking his last email as spam and hopefully your junk mail filters will pick him up and not bother your inbox again. Best of luck to you!
Thank you for the chuckle this morning. I'm with Tom, it must be the Chicago way.
@funride: If I had not responded to Mike, how could he find me a job?
If you "street view" the map of Mike McCarthy's address at 40 East Chicago (suite 131) you will see it is a STARBUCKS coffee shop, in the midst of a row of restaurants. It is not an office or office building
Nice.
I wonder why Mike doesn't want to find me a job?
I have not been able to get a job in 9 months, and Mike's occasional emails seem pretty benign. I got one from him today saying, "If you have a cover letter please upload it here so we can review it," so I did it. He's had the information from my resume for months, so what his motivation is I have no idea, but I'm kinda liking Mike to be honest. The emails are very occasional and very short, never pushy, and he seems to want to help.
@DBurrrell : Please filter out your ad hominem attacks on other readers and feel free to resubmit your comment. This is a hub about Mike McCarthy.
Hey MikeMcCarthy_the_Phisher, I see a lot of people setting up shop at Starbucks :) What the hay, access to coffee, and background music. I wonder if he has one of the baristas act as his receptionist when they're on break. Just saying.
@Mitch Dettloff wrote...
"Thanks for the heads up...I thought it was fishy. I have been in the Hospitality business for over 25 years and when I told him to send me a copy of the resume he said he had (I never sent him one)...he never responded back."
Hey. Mitch, you really don't wanna put your email address in your post. Trust me!
I live in Mexico and the guy sends me every 3 days a mail to submit my resume. I will just block him
Found this website when I googled "Mike McCarthy Chicago"... spell checker? Grammar checker? Is THAT what he/it does? He emails me every 2 days. He didn't seem real to me after a short time -- no one is that diligent without a phone call.
About grammar, this is his last text, verbatim:
"There's a lot of places you can put your resume on the internet. Make sure its everywhere you want it to be.
Post Resume Here (link removed)
Thanks,
Mike McCarthy
Phone: 312.277.1986
McSourcer Recruiting and Staffing
40 E. Chicago Ave. Suite 131
Chicago, IL 60611"
This guy has a lot of nerve praying on those of us who want a job not to mention using the Green Bay Packer's coach's name and saying he is from Chicago.
Good luck looser!
i know the area around 40 e. chicago but couldn't think of which building it was. googlemapped it. from the street view it does look like it's a starbucks. but if you look closer, at the garden (basement) level, it's a UPS shipping store. methinks his address is his paid mailbox at UPS!
All kidding aside, Chicago is a nest of honest hard working leaders trying to find other work....Could Mike be one of the secret double handshake Mayoral candidates in the hunt for the BEST job in Chicago? I'd be most happy to vote for him. He would likely be more honest that Rahm Emanuel.... OH oH, did I just go political...
I called the Chicago Police. 40 E Chicago venue is a non existent address. It is the site of a burned down water tower. I have registered a complaint with the FTC and the FBI internet crime bureau. This guy is a fraud, a phisher. I even called Net Atlantic, the marketing company that handles his email, they were awed as he is not listed as a customer. We owe it to ourselves to stop people like Mike and the more people that call the FTC (877.382.4357) and file complaints the quicker they will act. Numbers here count.
breakfastpop Level 8 Commenter 2 years ago
Sadly, there are lots of Mikes out there. Not only are you smart but you have a great sense of humor...Great hub about a really pathetic guy.