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They're not saying the company name because they don't want you going there directly and applying without them getting their hefty bonus
Then they should negotiate that they get the signing bonus if they make the referral, whether or not they're involved in the rest of the process.
I had a recruiter call me once, and as part of the conversation asked me what I was looking to make. I told him, and he replied that I’d be lucky to make 2/3 of that. I asked him if he had my resume in front of him and he said yes. I told him to delete it. I ended up working with a different recruiter and accepted an offer 20% higher than the number I gave the first one..
Yeah at least for tech stack and overall description of the opening I am clear with them I won't take a call without knowing the basic job description
My time for a call is not worth without knowing if the job is not minimally a fit.
Sending emails to my work address. Even if I'm considering new roles, that's a hard pass from me regardless of whether the role sounds interesting.
Easiest way for me to not even consider your opening (and don't worry, 99.9% of the time they're not worth it)
Give highly generic position descriptions "innovative company based in your country doing stuff"
Call you up even if you haven't posted a CV in years and ask for a CV
Not listen to you "I'm a contractor, I'm looking for contracts" - "would you consider full time" - "no" . Arrive at interview to find company looking to hire full-time because hey the word "no" means something different in recruiter speak
But if the recruiter obviously can't even be bothered to read my interests I've published on my profile, they can take a long hike off a short pier.
There’s a lot of people in here complaining about various things recruiters do. Let me give a different perspective. For the first couple of years of my career, recruiters just ignored me. It was like I simply didn’t exist. I hadn’t studied computer science and didn’t work at a well known company. Meanwhile, my coworkers with CS degrees constantly complained about having to bat away recruiters offering them crazy mon…
Stupid question, but how are they finding you now? LinkedIn?
I am on the other side of this. As a hiring manager using recruiters, I am annoyed by: - lack of diversity in candidates. (not just virtue signaling. if all I see are nearly identical resumes, I assume the recruiter is just phoning it in.) - candidates “just a little out of your price range” who are 30% over the top end of my budget. - “confidentially” telling me what other offers a candidate has because then I know…
Probably annoying as a hiring manager, but one of the best ways for workers wages to rise is by using competing, “leaked” offers against each other. This is in effect how you gauge what your talents are worth in the labor market. I’m glad offers get leaked for this reason
I am on the other side of this. As a hiring manager using recruiters, I am annoyed by: - lack of diversity in candidates. (not just virtue signaling. if all I see are nearly identical resumes, I assume the recruiter is just phoning it in.) - candidates “just a little out of your price range” who are 30% over the top end of my budget. - “confidentially” telling me what other offers a candidate has because then I know…
Could you explain what you mean by this? I don't quite understand the language.
God it really pisses me off when they find great people for my team. Even worse is when a recruiter finds me a well paid job that I like. I hate those jerks. Wasting everyone's time with wanting to "talk on the phone", trying to clarify details about my "skills" and "experience" or "salary expectation", ugh such pointless questions - can't they just send emails, which I can slam the "delete" key on?
It's like saying "ugh, it really pisses me off when police tries to do their job and protect me." in a conversation about police brutality and overreach.