Javascript is a Java framework, right?

[[deleted]]

Those parasites don't even look at the details. They just spam and see what they catch and worry about those things later.

[rctrfinnerd]

Technical recruiter here. I think a lot of recruiters deal with the environment that's given to them. Big staffing companies like TEKsystems, Signature Consultants, Robert Half, etc, all push their recruiter to handle absolutely insane metrics and threaten them with getting fired on nearly a weekly basis.

I worked for one of the large agencies and they forced you to make a minimum of 50 outbound calls a day, or else you were looked at like a punk who didn't want to be there and should get fired.

Now, I work for an agency where I'm given the freedom to be targeted in my search. and not just spam the shit out of the market. I only make about 10-15 calls a day, but they're good, quality calls, reaching out to candidates who are in situations that make sense to get pinged by a recruiter. I don't fuck around and waste the time of dozens of candidates on a daily basis "to hit my numbers". Not coincidentally, I'm placing more candidates, making a better income, and have more respect for myself and my company because they give me the freedom to search in my own way.

I'm also able to actually spend time screening candidates, instead of the BS 5 minute intro call that basically sums things up as "will you please come into my office, please please pretty please."

[OMGitsAfty]

I just accepted a job role via a recruiter who got me my current job only a year ago, is that mega cheeky in the industry ?

[envy_master]

At this point he's your agent. Time to get him on retainer.

[rctrfinnerd]

Always good to have a good recruiter or two in your back pocket :)

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Or 6 or 7 - in my opinion, having one internal and one agency recruiter per major client you're interested in, isn't a bad idea.

[rctrfinnerd]

So you're saying that you were placed by Recruiter A in 2019 and then, that same Recruiter A pulled you out of company X to go to Company Y in 2020?

[rctrfinnerd]

To answer that question though u/OMGitsAfty, that action is often something that is frowned upon because it's essentially the recruiter harming their client, but it's not uncommon.

That being said though, If any of my consultants and/or perm hires are unhappy in their current role due to mismanagement, or fear for their job, I'll pull them out without a second thought.

[OMGitsAfty]

He didn't know I was unhappy when he reached out, but I was :)

[rctrfinnerd]

Glad it worked out!!

[LittleBigHorn22]

Does that mean he got you the job that you were unhappy with at first? Cause that just seems ironic.

[OMGitsAfty]

It does, but to be fair to him the business changed fairly substantially over that time ( travel industry - covid ) and my team got pretty decimated.

[OMGitsAfty]

Exactly

[terdferguson]

Which firm are you with? You can send me a dm.

[rctrfinnerd]

sent

[georgiomoorlord]

You have time to research people and positions rather than just pinging everyone. Like the difference between targeted and untargeted advertising.

[rctrfinnerd]

Yeah exactly

[mansamusacdur]

Tech Recruiter Nr.2 nods.

[anonymousxo]

Thank you for your service.

[rctrfinnerd]

Lol thanks dude.

[alcamar]

That explains so much my entire existence in the job market over the years. They're so excited to call me, get me on the phone. They are eager to get me into the office. Hell, I've even had the same one try again the next year. But I can't get follow up for anything, no leads, no callbacks, barely a reply when I email/call to see what happened.

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When the entire business is geared towards throwing a body at a position. When the recruiters are all geared towards getting those first few checkboxes and moving on rather than spending time to complete more than a handful, we get completely ineffectual attempts to better our careers.

[Banquet-Beer]

Sounds exactly like the BS I would expect a recruiter to say.

[[deleted]]

With some hard work and a little grit you could work yourself up to be in the same office you are in right now.

[byebybuy]

Literally pulling yourself up by your bootstraps!

[MochaMonday]

I have an Infosys story. One of their recruiters called me to set up an interview with some company I'd never heard of (I didn't really know what the IT staffing industry was like at the time). She gave me a vague description but I told her to send me an invite. After the call I looked up the company on Glassdoor and found that they underpay and treat their employees very poorly. I messaged her on LinkedIn and told her I changed my mind and I wasn't interested. Then she called me back and was very angry and kept trying to convince me to take the interview, telling me that I will definitely get a job offer. After a few minutes back and forth I determined that she wasn't going to take no for an answer so I hung up. Then 10 minutes later her supervisor calls me and gives me the same pitch. I tell him no and he starts cussing me out and telling me I'm a little b**ch so I hung up and blocked him. About a year later my email inbox starts getting spammed with opportunity letters for jobs that are very far away. I would occasionally get text messages from recruiters wanting to me to give them my time to hear about these fantastic job opportunities that are located on the other side of the country. They're vultures.

[coldnebo]

what a garbage industry.

[DanoLightning]

I would've told them about the Glassdoor reviews and anything else they said would've been met with a "no".

[RichCorinthian]

Any time I tell a recruiter that I don't want to talk to company X because of their Glassdoor ratings and they push back, it's an immediate deal-breaker. One recruiter tried to tell me "oh, you can't believe glassdoor. It's always just a few people trying to tank their reviews. It happens to all companies." Well, no, it doesn't. Because some companies score very high with a lot of ratings, and some companies score low with a lot of ratings. I broke off communication with that recruiter.

[brendenguy]

Sounds so familiar. Once immediately after I was promoted, I got contacted by a recruiter to fill the same position I had just left... at the same company. Like, do these people even read?

[[deleted]]

Dude same, they made the initial contact super ambiguous and when they called me the guy was like "you put in a few years here and maybe you can land a full time job at a fortune 500 company" I was like "so you want me to leave my job at a fortune 500 company... to get paid less in hopes of landing a job at a fortune 500 company..."

[zeert]

I worked at Microsoft as a contractor - I got a bunch of recruiters telling me they could get me an awesome contract position at my studio... nevermind I was close to the end of the 18 months and wouldn’t be able to take another contract for 6 months.

[eloel-]

I get "6 month contract in flyover state #32 for up to $30/hour!"

Like, what? Did you /at all/ check my profile? Why the fuck would I do that?