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Is this written by a recruiter by any chance? Of course recruiters can be useful, but you need to understand their limitations. They just want to shortlist fiv
by oxfordmale 3y ago
Is this written by a recruiter by any chance?
Of course recruiters can be useful, but you need to understand their limitations. They just want to shortlist five candidates to a prospective client, and beyond this, they don't care.
Of course, they can be helpful if you end up on their shortlist. However, I would also recommend applying directly to jobs. Recruiters do not care if the job you are applying will result in working for the devil himself, as long as they get their commission.
- mooreds 3y agoFrom https://alexchesser.medium.com/ https://alexchesser.medium.com/ > Over the last 20 years a programmer, team lead and technical architect. I'm a father and podcast on topics in professional development and software engineering
- fma 3y agoEh - at a minimum, if they reply, you are able to collect data points on salary. If I see I'm trending behind I'd consider applying directly to jobs.
- oxfordmale 3y agoApparently I can get $1,000,000 in annual salary.
- johnnyanmac 3y agoWould a recruiter recommend you to automate respond back to them and ask for 50% more salary? I'd love to work with a recruiter like that. >However, I would also recommend applying directly to jobs. They are helpful for awareness. Especially when seeking out startups. I'm not going to randomly find those on a job board often.
- commandlinefan 3y agoI don't see any harm personally in responding with a generic copy pasta letting them know that I'm not looking, but thanks for reaching out, but I suspect than 9 out of 10 recruiters that do reach out to me will be out of the recruiting business long before I find myself looking.
- diarrhea 3y ago> out of the recruiting business long before I find myself looking. Where do they go? I like checking out recruiters' CVs, and a lot of them seem to stick around in their profession.