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by fecak 9y ago
I had been a recruiter for several years, starting off out of college with a ~200 person international firm for a couple years and then a founding member of a small boutique recruiting firm for about seven years. I eventually figured out th
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by fecak 9y ago
GitHub profiles are incredibly useful for college grads, bootcampers, and self-taught devs that typically can't speak of professional accomplishments. As your professional accomplishments increase, the value of GitHub profiles (for mos
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Not a lot of people do that. As mentioned, it's a service idea I kicked around a bit and wrote an article about that still gets me inquiries years later. 1-5% might make it worthwhile depending on how high ticket an item you are. The w
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by fecak 9y ago
Yes, to confirm a recruiter's fee is typically anywhere from 15-25% of employee's first year annual salary. So that 150K engineer in NYC earns an independent recruiter (working for herself/himself) anywhere from 22-37K. Now i
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by fecak 9y ago
No lead gen services at all. Most clients via referral or Reddit and HN. I could list the services on my main page, that's not a bad idea.
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by fecak 9y ago
Former indy recruiter here, and this is good advice. The line between "agent" and "recruiter" is blurry in cases of skilled and highly-ethical recruiters, and I'd toyed with changing my model to an agent approach. T
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by fecak 9y ago
Thanks! I used to enjoy doing social media ads for my recruiting business (my 3yo daughter will likely kill me when she's older as she was featured in most of the memes), and I'm still figuring out social for my resume business. P
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Thanks for the kind words! Biz has been great. I was in a 'test mode' for a bit, as I wasn't sure if I'd be able to do this full-time and earn enough to maintain my lifestyle (wife, 2 kids, relatively expensive place to
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by fecak 9y ago
For the past 20 years I've been a recruiter, and a few years back I started a resume writing and career consulting business called Resume Raiders ( http://resumeraiders.com ). It's a literal mom & pop operation and I
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I'm glad they are teaching students about resume writing, and hopefully the professors are versed in hiring outside academia. I write hundreds of resumes a year for my clients, and a high percentage of young clients are using really po
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I live only a few miles from the site and drive past it regularly. It's been interesting to watch the progress from an abandoned and overgrown property entirely unrecognizable as the site of anything of interest morphing into a recogni
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As a couple other commenters alluded to, when it comes to making money you should consider open source as the "long game". There are thousands of developers who improved their ability to get jobs and higher salaries by demonstrati
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by fecak 9y ago
Resume writer here that also writes cover letters for clients, converted to writing after 20 years in tech recruiting. Almost any time that a client asks for a cover letter, my response is "Here it is, and I hope you never have to use
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by fecak 9y ago
Resume writer here. I'll take a look at it for free to see if the resume is an issue. Many resume writers are just writers that learned resume writing was a way to get paid if they couldn't get published, so quality varies. I have
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by fecak 9y ago
Resume writer here. A good one page resume is a strong signal from a candidate IMO and experience. It tells the reader "I don't need to tell you every minute detail of my career to impress you. I want to start a conversation, and
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by fecak 9y ago
Make sure you have a marketable skillset, even in a down economy. Having been a tech recruiter for both good times and a couple downturns, I noticed that the people who got released first were doing tasks that managers felt could be passed
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by fecak 9y ago
There was a great detailed article on it many years ago, but since they've changed the site I haven't seen a new one. This is about as good as I've seen, and it's written by them. https://www.linkedin.com&#x2F
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Probably referrals from others inside the company (who you could find on LinkedIn). No real good answer to that.
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That is great advice, and to take it a step further I'd say not to focus on getting an interview but rather a conversation. If people you haven't met are referring you, you are already doing something right.
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Sure. Soft close is a vague way of saying "don't go begging for a job". When you make this approach somewhat cold or perhaps slightly warm, your objective is to get a conversation started - that doesn't need to be a form
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Your mileage will vary on LinkedIn depending on the time you put into populating your profile. I have written hundreds of profiles for clients this year - some clients are more concerned with branding (what does someone feel when they are d
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by fecak 9y ago
The problem with job boards is that unless they are rather unknown, everyone is using them. Applying through boards is essentially like getting into the back of a line and hoping you get noticed. When I coach job seekers on finding new work
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http://pixabay.com
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After recruiting for 20 years on the US east coast and now a few years as a resume writer that also coaches hundreds of software engineers on career topics, I don't think your future is nearly as grim as you seem to think. Ageism is de
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I recruited in tech for 20 years and now I write resumes, mostly for tech professionals. I generally start talking to my resume clients about ageism around 40 as well. I may ask if we want to keep the oldest jobs on the resume (which tend t
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by fecak 9y ago
1. Identify causes that truly interest you. 2. Make yourself look like a strong candidate on paper. 3. Search for companies that are focused on the causes you care about. 4. Reach out directly to the appropriate individuals at those compani
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I worked mostly with startups on the east coast if that helps (Philly market, some NYC). 1 - Maybe 20% gave an actual range. 2 - A mix. Most that did give numbers gave a ceiling. If I was dealing with a CTO, it might have been in the conte
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by fecak 9y ago
From 20 years of recruiting, two reasons. 1 - The high number is the only thing many candidates hear, which can lead to lost deals even when the offer is fair. Tell a candidate the range is 110 - 130K. Even if the candidate is "worth&q
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The sub I mod (r/cscareerquestions) held a popular AMA with a TripleByte co-founder for anyone looking to see some of their responses to questions about their work. https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/c
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Understood, but I also would think finding an 'all-or-nothing' deal for a team of any real size would be somewhat unique at that point. If you have a team of 10, and all 10 are required to come along, there is likely some chance

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