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If you're in India then Instahyre is pretty good. If you're OK with remote jobs then check out the job board at WWR ( https://weworkremotely.com/ )
does WWR work in India also? seems to be US based.
LinkedIn yes, Indeed no. Almost all recruiters (internal and external) are active on LinkedIn. It definitely doesn't hurt to have a good profile... people will reach out to you . Recruiters get a lot of scorn, but I've had good experiences with them as long as you understand their incentives. They usually get some percentage of your starting salary, so let's say they make 15k if your offer is 100k (making up these nu…
I would say they mostly suck. Very slimy, unwilling to divulge basic information and will ghost you in a heartbeat.
When the recruiters treated me well, so did the company. When the recruiters or HR treat me poorly (e.g. after the offer was signed, the nature of my remote work & travel was trifled over with little guilt trips), the company inevitably ended up being what was being reflected.
Are there recruiting agencies that people recommend? I'm having a hard time finding a new gig.
Tech is a seller's market and LinkedIn is s better shopping window for this kind of market, so all your future jobs are listed in LinkedIn.
Don't know at the executive level, I'm pretty sure that market move trough private channels and in limited times trough a public one.
Try Google for Jobs: https://www.google.com/search?q=wfh&uact=5&oq=wfh&sclient=gw... It's creation pushed me out of niche job boards. I imagine it will do the same to Indeed, and LinkedIn. All the major job boards syndicate jobs there.
> Oops, your browser, device and/or location is not yet supported. Google made it: they managed to signal how little they care about me even more clearly than the "Sadly we cannot show you this information since we are not allowed to use all our 900 trackers on you." To be a little constructive: just about anything would be better. I guess old Google would have said something like: - "This page is not adapted for you…
On a somewhat related note, if you think that LinkedIn is abused by managers, do check out https://www.shlinkedin.com/ and give it a go. It literally made me laugh out loud.
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> Oops, your browser, device and/or location is not yet supported. Google made it: they managed to signal how little they care about me even more clearly than the "Sadly we cannot show you this information since we are not allowed to use all our 900 trackers on you." To be a little constructive: just about anything would be better. I guess old Google would have said something like: - "This page is not adapted for you…
Which browser are you on? It works for me in Firefox.
That was part of why this message was unusually bad: they didn't even care to tell us if it was our device, our browser or where we connected from.
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Can you share a bit about how to find the second type of recruiter? I've gotten a sense of the dynamic you're describing but have no real idea of how to find good recruiters. As you say, pretty much all of the inbound messages I get are very spammy.
That's a very good question I don't think I have a straightforward answer to. I built my network over time by using LinkedIn suggestions - the more recruiters you connect with the more it will recommend, and now I occasionally get new connection requests from recruiters which I approve if they're relevant to my industry/skills and aren't from the first category. I guess I would just throw a few names out there and le…
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That's a very good question I don't think I have a straightforward answer to. I built my network over time by using LinkedIn suggestions - the more recruiters you connect with the more it will recommend, and now I occasionally get new connection requests from recruiters which I approve if they're relevant to my industry/skills and aren't from the first category. I guess I would just throw a few names out there and le…
Former 3rd party recruiter here, I loved meeting with candidates and hearing about what matters most to them before "pitching" them any opportunities. A good recruiter should learn more about who you are and your career goals before making any suggestions. I would say that is a good benchmark of a recruiter who cares and is not going to try and put a square peg in a round hole, so to speak... *While I have met some d…
That said, I feel that recruiters work harder the farther along you are in your career. They make more as a percentage and they realized that experienced candidates likely have a larger network and will send them more referrals. It's a sales business, they're not stupid.
LinkedIn is pretty good, however I really do hate the photos. The main reason we don't have photos on resumes in the West, is because it opens you up to discrimination. My physical appearance should have nothing to do with my hireabilty I also very much hate how people keep trying to turn it into Facebook. Stop it. Get your validation somewhere else. Now with that said, I've found almost all of my recent jobs via Lin…
LinkedIn as Facebook: OMG yes. I’d love to have a filter that removes all posts containing: proud, excited, thrilled, humbled, awesome. Also, anything related to politics on either side.