Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info>: > On Tuesday 17 May 2016 16:18, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > >> Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info>: >>> Personally, I think that advertising a job position without saying who >>> you are, what you do, and offering at least an indicative salary >>> range, are *astonishingly* rude >> I don't believe they care. >> >>> (to say nothing of counter-productive). >> Maybe, maybe not. >> >> I bet the zebras on the savannah consider the lions astonishingly rude >> and their strategy counter-productive. The savannah would be a nicer >> place if the lions ate grass like everybody else. > > A strange analogy. Employers and potential employees are not really in a > predator/prey relationship.
The unsavory recruiters are the predators. > The problem is that recruiter's best interests do not align neatly > with either potential employees *or* employers. They're like real > estate agents. The incentives for a recruiter is to find a barely > acceptable hire as quickly as possible for the least amount of effort > possible. There's no point in doing extra work to find the best new > hire, if the employer is willing to take a so- so hire. Since the > employer is only seeing potentials that the recruiter passes on, the > employer has no way of telling what the pool of would-be employees is > really like. Correct. Also, they may genuinely not care about ethics of any sort. > I'm not saying that all recruiters are unscrupulous or are intentionally > deceiving the other parties, Nor am I. > but the incentives are such that: Different recruiters follow different strategies, methods and practices. Psychopathy stays in our gene pool over generations because it sometimes *is* a winning strategy. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list