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What type of technical recruiters are you trying to reach? I've had decent luck with recruiters, and landed my last two jobs through recruiters, both first par
by nsp 13y ago
What type of technical recruiters are you trying to reach?
I've had decent luck with recruiters, and landed my last two jobs through recruiters, both first party - first party recruiters work directly with a company, who have a nice incentive to maintain good relations with the company and sometimes get a retainer rather than being fully commission based. 3rd party recruiters(overwhelming majority) are basically just getting a bounty if they manage to place someone, and have no direct relationship with the company - Think mechanical turk for job placements.
If you're interested in the latter kind:
- resume parsing and candidate sourcing
- skill matching. I cannot overstate the lack of technical knowledge of the median recruiter(based off of the experiences of my friend/longtime roommate who just left working as one), most people are doing straight word mafching between the job listing and the resume, no knowledge of hierarchies (Angular includes javascript, is a front end framework similar to backbone and ember) - to pick an example at random, my friends company routinely passed over dozens of candidates for not listing JSON experience, or not highlighting it prominently enough, regardless of other qualifications given.
I'd be happy to put you in touch with him, it's an industry that's nonstop pain points and inefficiencies, email is in profile.
- ashishb 13y agoWhat if there is a solution which can teach recruiters about some tech trends (like node.js is Javascript used for backend application development)?