On 8/14/23 3:23 PM, Bob Bridges wrote:
Am I missing something? Why the interest in making life hard for
recruiters? Ok, I'm a contractor so my continued employment depends
on their existence. Still, why?
Recruiters aren't a problem if they are /good/ recruiters. As in they
pay attention to what you tell them and they don't bother you with
things that don't qualify.
I've dealt with some good recruiters. I've also dealt with some
exceedingly bad recruiters.
If I thought that you normally work under those conditions - $125/hr
or outside the US half the time - then of course you're just stating
up front one of your requirements. From the tone, though, it sounds
like you're trying to make them unhappy for the fun of it. Is there
something going on here that I'm not aware of?
I've dealt with way too many bad recruiters this year. I've told them
up front, what I'm looking for in very clear and concise manner.
I clearly provided; salary, location / remote, and job function.
Too many of them would inquire if I wanted to drive a forklift or
install cable TV wiring in a completely different state across the country.
It got to the point that I would ban recruiter companies from my mail
server after the 3rd such wildly incorrect inquiry.
It's routine for different recruiters from the same company to reach
out, thinking that filtering is based on email address. I've even had a
recruiting company stop sending from their company email addresses and
use Gmail in order to avoid email filters.
These are the low ball recruiters that I want to simply go away and stop
talking to me.
Grant. . . .
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