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From what I can tell it never went away. I've worked with these types of recruiters and most of my friends have. That's how I landed my current job although I'm
by busterarm 1y ago
From what I can tell it never went away. I've worked with these types of recruiters and most of my friends have. That's how I landed my current job although I'm a decade in.
I still get calls and emails from them regularly. That model is still working in NY.
I haven't even considered using Monster in at least two decades though.
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoThe quality of the headhunters has taken a steep nosedive, though. Employers pay a lot less, these days, than they used to, so headhunters tend to be pretty young folks. That makes a difference. My last job was one that I stayed at for almost 27 years. The guy that recruited me, was in his fifties.
- busterarm 1y agoThe recruiter I worked with is ~50 and he's a former software engineer running his own agency employing several people all using tools he wrote. He specifically targets software engineers and NYC market. We still chat and I send him candidates and he's helped friends of mine find jobs. I know younger recruiters working in the fintech space and yeah have some mostly negative impressions. I actually think that a large part of the nosedive is that many tech companies have stopped working with external recruiters because they don't want to pay the extra costs. My company included. And hiring has suffered for it.