tech recruiters you like?

[Arc Riley]

My experience with recruiters is an extremely high signal:noise
ratio. Increasingly, recruiters (not company staff) are conducting phone
interviews, setting up on-site interviews themselves, and provide little to
no information on the actual position you're interviewing for.

I've had recruiters line up job interviews "that you're a perfect match
for" that turn out to be for .Net, Ruby, even one that was a windows
sysadmin position. I've also shown up for interviews which were not
actually scheduled (including Google, who flew me to NYC without actually
scheduling the interview) or shown up to find a waiting area full of
applicants with staff scrambling to conduct "speed dating" style 15 minute
interviews.

After it all my recommendation is to mark any contact from a recruiter as
spam. To +1 previous advice on this thread, the best way to find a job is
going to meetups and making personal connections with employees.

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Richard Kolb II <richard.kolb at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I would have to agree with the personal network comments. The last job
> that I applied for, and got, was in 2003. I've had 3 jobs since then, and
> they've all been through contacts from linkedin or a personal reference.
>
>
> Richard Kolb II
>
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 9:54 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The ones i liked retired.
>>
>> Outplacement firm i worked with most recently said % of jobs found
>> through personal network is growing. Getting hired as an internal
>> referral saves them the hassle of dealing with Monster or Zip or ... ,
>> and is usually better per-screened by the referrer, for free. They
>> recommended strong use of LinkedIn to reconstruct who you used to know
>> so you can leverage their eyes and ears.
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