And give up a chance to make a long-term, mutually-beneficial friendship with a trustworthy, honest individual who knows whats best for your career?!
LMAO
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#22I wish LinkedIn would let recruiters realize that I'm only willing to work within specified geographical areas. Probably 80% of my LinkedIn recruiter spam is for jobs that require moving to SV or NYC. It's a waste of everybody's time.
Even better would be a mechanism that cost recruiters actual $$$ for spamming people whose profiles clearly indicate they're unsuited for the job or unwilling to relocate to the job's location.
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#23On the flipside I feel so blessed that we literally have people offering us jobs left and right. Count your blessings and don't be rude to these people who are just trying to make a living.
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#24I prefer my brother's post "How to handle recruiter calls" which is 5 years old and every bit as relevant as when he wrote it.
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#26Can we please call this a 'recruiting canary'?
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's really shocking is that I've never once had an acceptable experience with a recruiter that has reached out to me. I've taken over 40 interviews this year in a variety of fields. I've had a much better experience and indeed received offers when applying to an ad or application posted on Indeed, Linkedin, Angel.co or the company website.
Speaking as an employer, thanks for this. Recruiters really are a scourge on our industry and their fees come straight out of your salary. If only more people were proactive about job hunting.
So true. If the fee was reasonable then "whatever", but it isn't reasonable.
And what is worse is that if an employee isn't motivated enough to spend maybe 30 minutes per day sending out some targeted info about themselves to companies that really could use their labor, then I don't think that employee is going to be motivated enough to do a really good job once they're in the seat.
A corporation can afford to pay 125-150k per year plus lots of capex/opex benefits. Maybe the employee is motivated and is a "rockstar" and does a great job, too.
But a startup hiring 10-15 people per year really needs to get it right every single time, and more often than not, motivation is more important than raw skill.
Just my opinions :)
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#28I am torn on this, devs are currently in a very fortunate position (if you live in a tech hotspot) to be able to just ignore these requests or be impolite by sending a link like this. However I believe you should still be grateful to be in a position like this and treat people with respect. Sending a link saying "no, stop contacting me and gtfo" is pretty rude. I have well educated friends that work in different indu…
I love getting a lot of attention.
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#29I am torn on this, devs are currently in a very fortunate position (if you live in a tech hotspot) to be able to just ignore these requests or be impolite by sending a link like this. However I believe you should still be grateful to be in a position like this and treat people with respect. Sending a link saying "no, stop contacting me and gtfo" is pretty rude. I have well educated friends that work in different indu…
You looking at this from your own perspective not from recruiter’s POV. They don’t care whether you are grateful or not; it’s just a job to them (nothing wrong in that). At the end of the month you just a number in column “converted” or as they probably called “placed”.
Of course some people with tons of skills will be easier to place than others, hence recruiters will push harder.
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#30The big red "No Soliciting" seems a tad unnecessary to me. Yes, recruiters can be annoying, but they're just people trying to make a living.
I don't have this problem with recruiters, but I do have it with people seeking investments. I just have a stock reply: "Thank you for the opportunity, but I'm not doing any investing at the moment."