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The problem is... They are trying to place you at a job and taking a commission by obfuscating the actual salary paid by the company. I've personally hired deve
by ry_d 13y ago
The problem is... They are trying to place you at a job and taking a commission by obfuscating the actual salary paid by the company. I've personally hired developers, salaried under big recruiting firms, who were getting shorted 35% of their potential income just for allowing someone with a marketing degree forward over a resume. With demand as high as it is for skill sets in the tech fields... you are foolish to believe they serve any purpose other than spam. Especially when spending an hour or so shotgun emailing your resume personally with a cover letter would net you nearly double the salary.
Alas the core issue in this blog post has nothing to do with the abundance of recruiter contact. Anyone with a Linkedin has already managed to figure out how to manage the difference between spam recruiters and the good guys.
- taude 13y agoYour comment doesn't make any sense to me. It's in the recruiter's best interest to maximize the salary they get the candidate, so that they can maximize the %-amount of the fill. They want to get the candidate 150K so that the recruiter's 30% cut is 45K. If they only get the candidate $125K, then there fee would only be 37.5K. Are you confusing recruiting for a job with someone that does body-shop contracting?
- greenyoda 13y ago"It's in the recruiter's best interest to maximize the salary they get the candidate" Actually, it's in the recruiter's best interest to maximize the return he gets over all his candidates. If he can place candidates three times as fast by offering them at 50% off their market rate, he makes a bigger total commission.
- taude 13y agoI'd buy that argument in a buyer's market. But I'm not aware of too many recruiters with a surplus of sourced tech talent right now. And they have to go through a lot of effort to source someone...so I'm going to still stand by my comment that a good recruiter is going to maximize the candidates value. Edit: I'd also add what tech talent is going to be so unaware of their market value that they'd take 50% of it?
- ttrreeww 13y agoWhat? Recruiters can actually tell you the salary range upfront while most company won't do it. Even better, recruiters can ask for feedback on your interview, try that yourself and get ignored!