Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter
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Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter
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Re: Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter
#2Sorry but I do not care enough about my career to put in this much effort. Recruiters are a dime a dozen these days and it's so much easier to just wait until you need one. Even if it's a bit less optimal.
Re: Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter
#3Love the idea of automating my linkedin email funnels... I might throw a GPT3 into the mix to spice things up...
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#4I always just respond with a "whats the salary range?" response, merely for data collection purposes
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#5I've been doing a variation of this myself over the years, it's gotten me good jobs. Sometimes, I'd simply say I want X salary that is ~20% more than I currently would have thought I was worth. Then sometimes the recruiter would come back and say that is actually possible.
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#6You can get better data points from levels.fyi and teamblind
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#7The typical recruiting-house recruiter has a script that was given to them by someone else, has no particular job in mind for you, and does not know the difference between Java and JavaScript. They are, in short, one small step above spammers. Unless you are currently thinking about changing jobs, you should definitely ignore them.
None of that applies to an in-house recruiter. Someone who works in HR for the hiring company, directly, may have years of experience, good training, and have a good idea of what the hiring manager is looking for. You shouldn't ignore them, although if you're entirely happy you should have a short message prepared -- "Thanks for thinking of me. I'm happy with my current position, but you never know what the future holds. Feel free to check in with me again in six months or so."
TL;DR: reputation counts.
Re: Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter
#8I always just respond with a "whats the salary range?" response, merely for data collection purposes
This. It works. And it saves time for both sides ( and remember that recruiters have no motive not to disclose it -- the more you get the better it is for them ).
Re: Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter
#9How could anyone come to this contrarian conclusion, even after reading the article it is baffling.
There is a time and place for in-house recruiters and third party recruiters. This article does not identify them and obsessively takes the contrarian view with no supporting rationale for doing so.
Re: Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter
#10I give an extremely simple answer, where I state that in the present, for $real_reason, I'm not looking for other opportunities, but in the future, I may. It worked!
I actually spend a little bit of effort to filter out (block) incompetent recruiters, but that's all.