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Ask HN: What are your experiences with recruiters?
Hello HN,
I’m located in Germany. Every other day, I receive an email or message from a random recruiter, who wants to hire for some client. In most cases, they’re using “spray and pray” because they require skills I don’t have, nor want to learn.
What’s the deal outside of Germany? Is this a global “problem”, or are we living in a bubble?
(Dear Recruiters: I appreciate your work! You guys rock, and I love to talk to you. At least if you’re good at your job, and treat us as humans — not resources.)
- itronitron 9y agoThe only people I hear complaining about that are engineers with technical blogs and I always wonder if they are just trying to talk themselves up.
- cimmanom 9y agoBecause of their tactics, most of the contacts you will get from recruiters are the useless "spray and pray" types. Sometimes there's a gem in there, though. Good recruiters can make a job search (or hiring for a position) much less arduous.