If they tell you the company, what's stopping you from turning them down and going directly to the company? I'm pretty sure that's the main reason they don't tell you the company.
An Open Letter To Recruiters
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Re: An Open Letter To Recruiters
#22Look, if my LinkedIn profile shows I just started a job three months ago, I am almost certainly not looking to move jobs right now. I noticed that last time I changed jobs I got a flood of e-mails just after I changed my LinkedIn profiles. It was deliberate, too - they'd start "I noticed you just started at X - if it isn't what you had hoped...", which is actually relatively smart in recruiter terms. My pet peeve: ca…
That's nothing compared to recruiters offering me senior jobs although I haven't even graduated. I literally have no idea who would hire those recruiters in the first place.
I feel bad for the decent recruiters because of the image thanks to spammers.
Re: An Open Letter To Recruiters
#23> B) not respond at all, depending on how good the rest of your pitch was. Why are you doing anything but this, in any situation? Delete/mark as spam, move on.
Because then he couldn't write a blog post that is partially a thinly-veiled brag about how much he gets hit up for jobs!
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#24From the bio I’m friendly. I don’t bite. Feel free to say hi. That certainly doesn't match the Open Letter. Recruiters are there doing a job, and it's not an easy one. I have a lot of sympathy for them. Treat them nice, because at some point in your future, you'll be looking for a job too. The ones that you treated well ("This job isn't for me, but try calling X who is looking") will remember it.
I'm sorry you don't consider it friendly. Personally, telling them why their pitch didn't work felt friendlier than just assuming they had no interest in improving and ignoring them, which is the other tenable option.
It would be unfriendly for me to send recruiters after friends without knowing if the friend is actually a match for the company or not. At least in my opinion.
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#25Maybe it's just me, but expecting recruiters to research your sexual orientation seems a bit over the top. Why don't you just work with local recruiters.
Re: An Open Letter To Recruiters
#26If they tell you the company, what's stopping you from turning them down and going directly to the company? I'm pretty sure that's the main reason they don't tell you the company.
I'm not sure I see the incentive in me doing that...?
Unless, of course, I hate dealing with them. In which case I'm not going to get hired through them in the first place.
Why would I do that?
Re: An Open Letter To Recruiters
#27> B) not respond at all, depending on how good the rest of your pitch was. Why are you doing anything but this, in any situation? Delete/mark as spam, move on.
Because then he couldn't write a blog post that is partially a thinly-veiled brag about how much he gets hit up for jobs!
And oh, man you should see the amount of junk mail and spam I get too!
Be jealous of how frequently telemarketers call me!
You nailed it, ace.
Re: An Open Letter To Recruiters
#28If they tell you the company, what's stopping you from turning them down and going directly to the company? I'm pretty sure that's the main reason they don't tell you the company.
To me, the recruiter is representing the company. If they're reaching out to me, I'd like to think I already have an "in" with the company. Why would I circumvent that and go in alone?
Re: An Open Letter To Recruiters
#29Look, if my LinkedIn profile shows I just started a job three months ago, I am almost certainly not looking to move jobs right now. I noticed that last time I changed jobs I got a flood of e-mails just after I changed my LinkedIn profiles. It was deliberate, too - they'd start "I noticed you just started at X - if it isn't what you had hoped...", which is actually relatively smart in recruiter terms. My pet peeve: ca…
Same here! Once they called the frontdesk and left a message for me to get back to them(cuz I have no work number). They also called the frontdesk for a coworker and lied that they were someone that played tennis with him months ago. When the coworker called back, the recruiter admitted he lied because he thought the frontdesk wouldn't relay the message if he said the truth... o_O; Another thing, is I really wish the…
You're aiming way too high with requirements stating organic food locations. My LinkedIn requirements stated "no recruiters", yet lo and behold...
Re: An Open Letter To Recruiters
#30Maybe it's just me, but expecting recruiters to research your sexual orientation seems a bit over the top. Why don't you just work with local recruiters.
It's as easy to figure out I have a boyfriend as it is to figure out what I look for in a company. Or what my preferred stack is. I'm not really subtle about it. But I'll give you that one; it's possible to get a good pitch for a state I wouldn't consider working in, assuming it has some other evidence that they know something about me other than "Matched my search results for 'writes Python sometimes'".
I don't work with local recruiters because _I'm not looking for a job_.