Dear potential candidate,
I promise you. I will not tell you how to do your job or be critical of the way you are doing your job - even if you are sometimes wasting my time.
Sincerely, Your potential recruiter
Dear Recruiters
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Re: Dear Recruiters
#52Sounds like you have the same experience with recruiters as I do!
I wish linkedin would allow you to add this stuff to your profile. Ideally the search/spam feature of linkedin that recruiters use, would have to pass your filter before getting sent to you. This way if you get notified at least it passed your filter and you would be OK with it. That would be a feature I would pay for.
Adding a criteria filter is also a feature I'd pay for. Great Idea.
Re: Dear Recruiters
#53...by the way, if you find any recruiters offering a 200k job with 6 weeks vacation and a signing bonus, where you can telecommute from anywhere, but darnit they require Windows or PHP work now and again... drop me a line! ;)
I'd be willing to write in brainfuck exclusively for 200k. This guy has it good, doubt he'll ever find a job with that kind of attitude. He could be ol' Don Knuth, still wouldn't get a job from anyone worth working for.
Although, with that guy's track record, maybe he knows being a cocky asshole is just the way to get a good job in software, I don't know.
edit: after thinking about it more, I think this may be a parody of the sort of unrealistic expectations recruiters have for 'talent'.
Re: Dear Recruiters
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
A link to a post like yours would be the perfect response for emails such as: "Hi James Please contact me asap or I can call you ?? I'd like to discuss a PHP contract role your perfect for Speak soon"
Yeah, I'm hoping it will save me some time. Now I can just send them this link each time I get a message, and if they bother following the link, doing as I say, and writing back then I know they are at least serious and not just fishing.
OP, why bother replying to posts where the recruiter clearly didn't read your profile at all? It's a nice gesture, but the sender is creating work for you by being lazy and off target. An offline version might be responding to junk mail with a note about what you'd really like to buy.
Are you replying on the off chance the spammer is sitting on a cushy job order they haven't mentioned?
Re: Dear Recruiters
#55His LinkedIn profile has an alphabet soup of technologies and programming languages. Even if a recruiter did read it, like he requests, they would have no idea what this guy's real focus is. It even mentions Windows, as well as Xcode and iPhone development when he is clearly a server engineer. Maybe he needs to revise or shorten his resume before lashing out at recruiters for not reading it. I'm not a recruiter, I'm…
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Re: Dear Recruiters
#56I love Portland, Maine. I don't blame you for not wanting to leave.
I'm shocked how many telecommuters live here in Maine; and dismayed at the number of companies who think we actually want to move to the Valley.
You might not be 22, full of idealism and hope for the future, completely distracted by high profile start up capital and valley life style. As someone who was recently interviewing in SF, I find that the younger "nothing but my bike and my MacBook" type well geared for that. The pay is good when you don't have a family and are willing to pay 2300 for a one bedroom shithole.
Of course, I'm hand waving and over generalizing. But I'd say a large portion of the talent demand meets that transient start up life style and many recruiters probably assume that if you are in tech, that its what you want.
Re: Dear Recruiters
#57Why am I reading about someone's slick way to solicit recruiters while pretending he is happy with his great job?
If I was his manager reading this, I would bring him in for a 1:1 to determine what truly motivated him to write such a worded diatribe. Best case scenario he doesn't understand how multiple audiences would react to it and assumed only developers that agree with him would see it. This is never the case with the Internet so I'd then have to question his capacity to understand the field he is in.
At the very least it reflects poorly on his current employer, as I wouldn't join in fear of having to work with him.
In this world you must assume that everything you write on your blog, Facebook, etc will end up in front of your grandma, your parents, and your boss. Assuming otherwise is a risk, or at least a demonstration of thoughtlessness.
Re: Dear Recruiters
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
A link to a post like yours would be the perfect response for emails such as: "Hi James Please contact me asap or I can call you ?? I'd like to discuss a PHP contract role your perfect for Speak soon"
Yeah, I'm hoping it will save me some time. Now I can just send them this link each time I get a message, and if they bother following the link, doing as I say, and writing back then I know they are at least serious and not just fishing.
I mark-as-read without reading unless I'm actively looking. So why do you open them?
Re: Dear Recruiters
#59This guy will change his tune when he gets fired for being an asshole.
Re: Dear Recruiters
#60Why talk down to people like so, almost treating the recruiters like they were little children who need to be lectured about how to behave. Recruiters are human beings too, who are just trying to do their job.
Try posting a public resume on Monster sometime, and wait for the multiple e-mails about a perfect opportunity, and then if you follow up on them it's a 3 month contract in Lower Bumfark, Kansas.
No, actually, it's almost always insurance sales or multi-level marketing.