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The recruiter needs to understand a different market than an engineer. Recruiters also don't come into play when you can easily fill the position. The harder i
by Shinmon 4y ago
The recruiter needs to understand a different market than an engineer.
Recruiters also don't come into play when you can easily fill the position. The harder it becomes the more relevant a good recruiter becomes.
Are there plenty of bad ones? Definitely. But that's true for almost every profession.
- WM6v 4y agoThis is what I'm getting at: It's an easy market for the domain expert to be great at. How hard can it be? With the added criticism that I see little value in less competent people doing it.
- Shinmon 4y agoI just don't think deep domain expertise makes you a better recruiter. You need to have deep domain expertise in recruiting with all its facets. Then, you need a working knowledge of the domain you are recruiting for. Having a little experience coding is definitely a good thing if you are recruting software engineers. However, you don't need to be able to build a distributed system using AWS. A good recruiter only recruits for a specific horizontal or vertical niche and knows enough about that domain to talk. One way to extract value from that chain for an engineer would be, to offer tech consulting/teaching to recruiters.