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Telling recruiters what I'd expect from a salary, and then never hearing from them again, is something that I consider a feature, not a bug. It means I'm not g

Telling recruiters what I'd expect from a salary, and then never hearing from them again, is something that I consider a feature, not a bug. It means I'm not getting nagged by recruiters weekly. I still get a new one every month or two, but the frequency is much more manageable now.

joshstrange 5y ago
Agreed. When I'm in "Job hunt mode" I write up a paragraph or two with what I'm looking for (salary, health insurance, 401k+matching, etc) and what I'd be willing accept in lieu of some of those things (no matching? Ok then I need to be making X% more to make up for that). It also includes what types of technology I'm interested in working with. Then I just spam that out to every recruiter that has or is currently emailing me or messaging me on platforms like LinkedIn. Every time I do look at switching jobs I consider going into recruiting instead as most all recruiters I've ever worked with are completely incompetent. I don't expect them to know every technology and how it works but I do expect some basic patten-matching-level of competence (for example, you don't need to know anything about Angular/Vue/React but those should come to mind when "frontend" is mentioned and if a developer says they want to work with "Vue" the recruiter should be able to ask "Would you also be ok with Angular/React?"). Most of the time they function only as slow go-betweens in a game of telephone that they mangle horribly. I've had recruiters lie, ghost me, or just fail at basic message-passing. The last recruiter I worked with was so slow at responding that I just went around them and contacted the company directly and had an interview setup almost immediately. For the amount a recruiter gets for placing someone I'd expect they'd be much better at what they do.

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Telling recruiters what I'd expect from a salary, and then never hearing from them again, is something that I consider a feature, not a bug. It means I'm not g

by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago

joshstrange 5y ago
Agreed. When I'm in "Job hunt mode" I write up a paragraph or two with what I'm looking for (salary, health insurance, 401k+matching, etc) and what I'd be willing accept in lieu of some of those things (no matching? Ok then I need to be making X% more to make up for that). It also includes what types of technology I'm interested in working with. Then I just spam that out to every recruiter that has or is currently emailing me or messaging me on platforms like LinkedIn. Every time I do look at switching jobs I consider going into recruiting instead as most all recruiters I've ever worked with are completely incompetent. I don't expect them to know every technology and how it works but I do expect some basic patten-matching-level of competence (for example, you don't need to know anything about Angular/Vue/React but those should come to mind when "frontend" is mentioned and if a developer says they want to work with "Vue" the recruiter should be able to ask "Would you also be ok with Angular/React?"). Most of the time they function only as slow go-betweens in a game of telephone that they mangle horribly. I've had recruiters lie, ghost me, or just fail at basic message-passing. The last recruiter I worked with was so slow at responding that I just went around them and contacted the company directly and had an interview setup almost immediately. For the amount a recruiter gets for placing someone I'd expect they'd be much better at what they do.