Mostly true. Except when I was leaving my first job at IBM/Poughkeepsie (IBM was great place to start career, but I hated rural POK having grown up and attended college in New York City) I told recruiters to focus on NY and Boston, where I had friends and relatives. A recruiter who didn't follow my instructions asked, "How about Washington?". "Sure", I said, "I have relatives there, have enjoyed visiting". So I came to DC area to work at Mitre, spent rest of my life/career here.
Robert Frost: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. So I forgave him. ...and regarding a point someone else made, once my IBM manager determined that I was going to an IBM customer, not competitor, I was able to work through the long notice I'd given to stop my manager from continuing to try to find a transfer for me. Funny, as I was leaving, more than one person said that was a great career move -- go work for a customer or two, then come back with real-world knowledge/skills, which were too scarce at IBM. I did the first part but forgot to return. Grant Taylor<gtay...@tnetconsulting.net> 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. -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, inc.g...@gabegold.com 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 204-0433 LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/gabegold Twitter: GabeG0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
