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Funny enough, I'm a recruiter by trade. We walk an impossible line with candidates, particularly when demand is so high (candidates care a lot less when the eco
by fecak 10y ago
Funny enough, I'm a recruiter by trade. We walk an impossible line with candidates, particularly when demand is so high (candidates care a lot less when the economy is down, and I used to get job seekers acting like my best friend in the early 2000s).
If it's "too generic" the recruiter is dismissed as being lazy and spamming - "too personal" and the recruiter is fake.
I do understand what you mean and have seen recruiters that try to get a bit too chummy. By relating to someone, I might mention if we went to the same college or if I know people from their company or group they belong to. I'm not going to ask about their kids or spouse unless it's someone I know well.
- philh 10y agoNaively, it seems to me that the thing to do here is to mention something about the person's work. I would dislike someone saying they went to the same university as me, because I don't care - I recognise that others differ, but to me, it seems fake and try-hard. But I would like something like "your $project on github is interesting", or "I liked your blog post about". (Attempting to fake this can go wrong. I've had emails that said things like "we were impressed by your github portfolio, particularly in Python and C", which sounds spammy because you could easily generate that by scraping Github, and I barely use C.) You know your job better than me, but that's how I would think to avoid seeming either too spammy or too chummy.