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> agencies try to capitalize on the environment of nerdy male engineers by having an unusually high number of attractive women to get a higher response This se

by cbanek 9y ago

> agencies try to capitalize on the environment of nerdy male engineers by having an unusually high number of attractive women to get a higher response This seems questionable. All the recruiters I've ever dealt with are over email and phone, and you might not even meet them when you interview on-site (because there may be an on-site recruiter for the interview). I don't see how physical attractiveness comes into it. I also find that my chance of having a male recruiter or a female recruiter contacting me is about 50/50.

brandall10 9y ago
My own experience is from Linked-In and at tech meetups. In the latter, I can't even recall ever seeing anyone other than an attractive 20-something female present, at least here in San Diego. As far as actual statistics, I know I've seen a few over the years where it was shown that > 80% of tech recruiters are female but I'm having trouble finding much due to the influx of hits regarding recruiting female engineers. I did find this one for the recruitment industry in general in Israel: http://staffingtalk.com/why-most-recruiters-female/ http://staffingtalk.com/why-most-recruiters-female/ With particular interest to this update: "*UPDATE: Bradley Ruffle recently noted via a comment on this post that they expanded their initial survey to 208 companies. 91% of these recruiters were female (with the majority still being single and under 30 years old)."
- cbanek 9y ago
  My experience is also from linkedin and just random emails - I don't really do the meetups, although I could see where that could come into play. Though I think most engineers are actually more excited to find an engineer wearing a shirt from a company they want to work for and talk about tech. I don't have any data to back this up either, but I wonder if the companies contacting me might also have a certain pattern. Bigger companies, like Google & FB, I think I have had more recruiters with female names contact me (although I have had some male ones as well). Small startups it seems to be more males, or maybe even just direct employees if they have no recruiters.
  - brandall10 9y ago
    Right - there is often representation from engineering in a recruitment capacity. To be clear, I'm talking only of people who are employed as recruiters.

by cbanek 9y ago

brandall10 9y ago

My own experience is from Linked-In and at tech meetups. In the latter, I can't even recall ever seeing anyone other than an attractive 20-something female present, at least here in San Diego. As far as actual statistics, I know I've seen a few over the years where it was shown that > 80% of tech recruiters are female but I'm having trouble finding much due to the influx of hits regarding recruiting female engineers. I did find this one for the recruitment industry in general in Israel: http://staffingtalk.com/why-most-recruiters-female/ http://staffingtalk.com/why-most-recruiters-female/ With particular interest to this update: "*UPDATE: Bradley Ruffle recently noted via a comment on this post that they expanded their initial survey to 208 companies. 91% of these recruiters were female (with the majority still being single and under 30 years old)."

cbanek 9y ago
My experience is also from linkedin and just random emails - I don't really do the meetups, although I could see where that could come into play. Though I think most engineers are actually more excited to find an engineer wearing a shirt from a company they want to work for and talk about tech. I don't have any data to back this up either, but I wonder if the companies contacting me might also have a certain pattern. Bigger companies, like Google & FB, I think I have had more recruiters with female names contact me (although I have had some male ones as well). Small startups it seems to be more males, or maybe even just direct employees if they have no recruiters.
- brandall10 9y ago
  Right - there is often representation from engineering in a recruitment capacity. To be clear, I'm talking only of people who are employed as recruiters.