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Hooray! Now that recruiter who really wants to offer me a world class position(tm)(r)(c) at a unnamed world class company(tm)(r)(c), just like Facebook but loca
by floppydisk 14y ago
Hooray! Now that recruiter who really wants to offer me a world class position(tm)(r)(c) at a unnamed world class company(tm)(r)(c), just like Facebook but located in my metro area, can call me at dinner time to inform me of the good news!
Oh, I have to install an app to my phone for this to work. Phew, still safe! Just more cross-service account linking, nothing to see here, move along.
- potatolicious 14y agoI really dislike "mystery meat employer" recruiter contacts. Just like charities, if I can't research it myself I'm not even a tiny bit interested. I wonder why this is, is it to prevent the employer and potential employee cutting out the middle man? I can say with great confidence that I have never responded to any email/LinkedIn contact where the company name is not mentioned.
- floppydisk 14y agoI had one nebulous recruiter call my company's front desk and try to get me consider taking a position with his talent pool after I ignored his message on LinkedIn. To my limited understanding, the way the recruiting market works is recruiters build up a bank of talent they can submit for client jobs and they get a % commission of the meat err recruit's base salary as compensation. Ergo, the incentive is to build as big a stable of developers as possible that you can keep submitting for jobs. I personally ignore all the meat market recruiters on LinkedIn, it just gets absurd after a while.
- scott_to_s 14y agoWord. That reminds me, I need delete my LinkedIn account - spammy as hell, and wilfully obstructive when it comes to offering levers to opt out of stuff. Update: Done!