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To me it seems like the majority of recruiters barely read past company name and job title. I switched from Dev to SRE at the same company, and within like one

by dmoy 11mo ago

To me it seems like the majority of recruiters barely read past company name and job title. I switched from Dev to SRE at the same company, and within like one week of remembering to update LinkedIn job title, the random recruiter messages switched from Dev to "oh we are looking for someone like you with lots of SRE experience" (having worked in SRE for <3 months). So yea, it's difficult to get traction for something that isn't already your job title.

MikeNotThePope 11mo ago
>> the majority of recruiters barely read past company name and job title This is a failing of the hiring manager. If the recruiter can't tell who is and isn't a good fit, the hiring manager should have corrected the situation or not partnered with the recruiter.
- freedomben 11mo ago
  Disagree. The most common reason I've seen for this is the recruiters using largely or entirely automated tools to comb LinkedIn, Github, and many other sources and auto-blasting out those cold emails. They don't even look at the resume until you reply with interest. It's not (usually) the hiring manager's fault. They frequently don't even know that is occurring. I find that practice disgusting personally and will never do it myself or condone it in others, but it does seem to work.
  - never_inline 11mo ago
    It probably doesn't work. It seems to work because you will never know the opportunity cost of not hiring a better person, after you already hired a worse person.
  - MikeNotThePope 11mo ago
    The hiring manager can set the expectation with a recruiter that all candidates submitted must meet a certain standard. If the hiring manager let's the recruiters send garbage and/or fails to guide them, that is 100% a hiring manager problem.
Aurornis 11mo ago
> and within like one week of remembering to update LinkedIn job title, the random recruiter messages... The LinkedIn random recruiter messages are a different game than resume screening. Most of those recruiters are using the LinkedIn search tools. Searching for keywords like "sre" is essentially useless because so many people do keyword stuffing. So instead, many recruiters will either be given or will ask for a list of companies to try to pull candidates from.

by dmoy 11mo ago

MikeNotThePope 11mo ago

>> the majority of recruiters barely read past company name and job title This is a failing of the hiring manager. If the recruiter can't tell who is and isn't a good fit, the hiring manager should have corrected the situation or not partnered with the recruiter.

freedomben 11mo ago
Disagree. The most common reason I've seen for this is the recruiters using largely or entirely automated tools to comb LinkedIn, Github, and many other sources and auto-blasting out those cold emails. They don't even look at the resume until you reply with interest. It's not (usually) the hiring manager's fault. They frequently don't even know that is occurring. I find that practice disgusting personally and will never do it myself or condone it in others, but it does seem to work.
- never_inline 11mo ago
  It probably doesn't work. It seems to work because you will never know the opportunity cost of not hiring a better person, after you already hired a worse person.
- MikeNotThePope 11mo ago
  The hiring manager can set the expectation with a recruiter that all candidates submitted must meet a certain standard. If the hiring manager let's the recruiters send garbage and/or fails to guide them, that is 100% a hiring manager problem.

Aurornis 11mo ago

> and within like one week of remembering to update LinkedIn job title, the random recruiter messages... The LinkedIn random recruiter messages are a different game than resume screening. Most of those recruiters are using the LinkedIn search tools. Searching for keywords like "sre" is essentially useless because so many people do keyword stuffing. So instead, many recruiters will either be given or will ask for a list of companies to try to pull candidates from.