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That has been my experience. I've gotten better interviews from headhunters who don't insist on meeting me first. A lot of the ones who insisted on meeting me
by fsk 11y ago
That has been my experience. I've gotten better interviews from headhunters who don't insist on meeting me first.
A lot of the ones who insisted on meeting me are shady body shops, where they're just looking to build a large candidate pool in case something comes up later. They also tend to be fishing for leads, asking who my hiring manager was at former jobs so they can hit them up to sell other candidates.
For the headhunters who insisted on meeting me, they either never sent me on an interview or sent me on a lot of low-quality interviews.
It's just like a pre-interview screening test anti-correlates with good interviews/jobs, to the extent that I usually just pass now.
- walshemj 11y agoThose arn't head-hunters just lower tier recruitment agencies. Real head hunters will want to meet candidates - as will serious agencies.
- fsk 11y agoHow do I tell the difference between a real headhunter and a lower tier recruitment agency?
- walshemj 11y agoIs it a real company like Michel Paige - and reputation in the industry.
- fsk 11y agoYou mean like Robert Half Technology? They're a big name, and they've repeatedly wasted my time to the extent that I now refuse to talk with them.
- walshemj 11y agooh and reputation I have sacked one major uk agency and refuse to talk to them as well.
- chrisbennet 11y agoAlso known as "Robert Half My Rate". :-)