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by fecak 11y ago
1 - You had me at "TekSystems". 2 - I'm guessing you wouldn't just get that from recruiters though, do you? I'd think recruiters aren't any more apt to say something like that than other technologists. That see
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by fecak 11y ago
>From my experience with recruiters, something like 90% of them DON'T GIVE A SHIT. I tried offering them constructive feedback and they acted like it went in one ear and out the other and kept doing the same shit they always did. Th
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by fecak 11y ago
If that isn't at the top of your profile, moving it up might help. Recruiters probably make the decision to contact you early on in the profile (if they are even reading it), and might not make it to the bottom where LinkedIn typically
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by fecak 11y ago
These are questions I always ask in conversation, worded a bit differently, and people are more than happy to answer them. These aren't questions most will respond to in an introductory email though. I'll often include something l
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by fecak 11y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but we're also putting a one-size-fits-all approach to that. It's hard to gauge the recipient's shoes. Someone in the comments here suggested they weren't interested in who the investors are o
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by fecak 11y ago
I appreciate the insight, and I should probably add that I've been recruiting for almost 20 years so my question is more geared towards helping those in the industry improve and not for my personal use. Shaming recruiters is so easy an
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by fecak 11y ago
Unless I missed something, no. You can't go too far (on HN, Reddit, etc.) without seeing some recruiter shaming and explanations of what not to do, but how often do you see a post that says "I just received the most interesting
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by fecak 11y ago
Recruiter here, and one who is publicly critical of this kind of behavior in the industry. I write about career topics frequently and try to expose recruiter bad behavior. (1) I completely understand frustration about being contacted for jo
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by fecak 11y ago
If this were to pass it could make some problems go away, but perhaps just change the way the problems appear. The bill doesn't seem to preclude employers from asking for salary expectations, which are what they really want to know any
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Recruiter Tricks: Salary Talk and Candidate Control(jobtipsforgeeks.com)
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by fecak 11y ago
This question is actually a potentially useful tool for closing a candidate as well, designed to find out the candidate's interests with the answer potentially used to demonstrate that the job being offered is a fit for the candidate&#
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by fecak 11y ago
It's just been removed, but the shooter posted first person cell phone video (two separate videos) of the shootings on Twitter (an account of Bryce Williams). His prior tweets were something about a problem he had with the reporter or
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by fecak 11y ago
.Net recruiters? Nobody comes to mind unfortunately. I don't know many recruiters actually.
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As a recruiter, I'd agree that many are terrible, and you're correct that many got into recruiting because it is an easy industry to enter. Recruiting firms pay commission-based comp packages, so the risk to a bad hire is rather l
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by fecak 11y ago
Thanks to you both for the kind words, and I do my best to provide a good service to my candidates and clients alike. And I did run the JUG in Philly for 15 years, resigning in February.
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by fecak 11y ago
In this case, the argument is easily made that a domain name is even less important because the company in question is Google itself.
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There's a fairly common saying about it being preferable to "beg forgiveness" than to "ask permission". In this case, I was referring to Google possibly mentioning to BMW their intent to use the Alphabet name.
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by fecak 11y ago
Agreed that nobody is going to think Google is a marginal company. IANAL, but I'd think it's a bit odd that nobody from Google would contact BMW (as BMW spokesperson said in article). An announcement this big concerning two large
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by fecak 11y ago
Timely considering PG's post earlier in the week http://paulgraham.com/name.html
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by fecak 11y ago
Regardless of what you do over the summer (reading up on their stack is good advice as others said), find a mentor as soon as you can. Someone who has been in the industry for a while.
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by fecak 11y ago
The biggest complaint I hear about LinkedIn is the amount of email the company sends users (not mail generated by other users, but mail generated by LinkedIn itself). It also seems to rather consistently ask to access your email contacts (&
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by fecak 11y ago
"works like us" is certainly much more reasonable (and safer legally) than "looks like us" or "plays like us". It's companies that hire based on the looks like/plays like that give "cultural fit&
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by fecak 11y ago
As a bit of an outsider (recruiter) that talks to people in various areas of programming, there does seem to be some perceived hierarchy in programming that is somewhat related to language communities, and I sense it quite a bit on HN. I ca
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by fecak 11y ago
I recently blogged about this similar topic ( http://jobtipsforgeeks.com/2015/05/20/moremoney/ ) and listed a handful of ways to avoid what I referred to as a salary plateau. The basic list was change jobs
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by fecak 11y ago
Agreed that the ones you are definitely going to speak with are easy to identify. I like to err on the side of giving anyone borderline at least a conversation or request for more info. The "especially if they have been playing around
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by fecak 11y ago
15+ years ago I got my recruiting career going by taking 3-7 year engineers from defense and putting them into startups, but that was a different time. I don't think you'd be overlooked by open-minded managers and recruiters who r
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by fecak 11y ago
Another great article from Aline. Past employers, schools, and GPAs can obviously generate false positives. I like this idea overall and would be interested in seeing the results of others. 400 applications to 1 hire isn't a great resu
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by fecak 11y ago
Again, I'll help a candidate by letting them know what type of interview to expect (whiteboard, grilling, pairing, etc.), but not specific questions. I'll also mention if there is a drug test, and I can't help them pass that
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by fecak 11y ago
I emailed you a few hours ago. I'm in NY, but happy to share ideas.
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by fecak 11y ago
I've been in agency recruiting for almost 20 years, and I've never told a candidate what question to expect. I might say there is a whiteboard exercise, or years ago mentioned if a client asked Fermi problems, but never a specific

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