Recruiters
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- d0mino
Is it bad form to use more than one recruiter?
I am moving cities soon and won't to hit up recruiters for freelance work, should I call them all or call one?
- Jackson_Polyp0
All!
- Continuity0
OK, listen:
1) Recruiters work in the interest of their paying clients (employers) and not you (job hunter);
2) Recruiters are sales-driven, and will try to shove you into a job you don't necessarily want, so that they get the commission from the employer;
3) Recruiters _are not_ talent managers. They don't represent you. They don't give a toss about you or your career. IF you were paying a talent rep, then it would be politically better to just stick to the one. But, you're not, so ...
... use as many as you can find, and hold your nose whilst doing so.
- microkorg0
Yeah use em' all. They are vultures themselves!
About 10 years ago there was a bunch of us paid off from a top UK digital company when the dotcom bubble burst.
I came back into the studio from being fired up in the directors office, sat down, then a couple of minutes later my mobile phone went ..... it was a recruiter!!!"hi, i believe you are now looking for a job ......."
WTF!?!?!
Vultures I tells ya.
Use them as they'd use you.
- vaxorcist0
hah! just make sure they don't find out you're two-timing them!
Remember of course that Recruiters are experts at the human-interaction stuff most of us tech/designer/developers are not...
- microkorg0
Using a recruiter IS a good way to find a job fast and they have their sticky fingers in a lot of pies and know the industry - who's hiring and who's firing etc.
Bear in mind though that the slice of cake that they get from an employer for getting you a job with them could be going into YOUR pocket instead if you have the time to spend to find and approach companies yourself.
- microkorg0
crowdsource recruiters ;)
hahaha
- pinkfloyd0
I don't see anything wrong with having more options.
- Me neither. This is business, and there's no room for Nice Guys in business.Continuity
- I agreepinkfloyd
- vaxorcist0
I was placed twice by recruiters... both times it was good....
I almost was placed twice by recruiters, but it smelled fishy, and I said no, taking a different gig from my own connections due to the oddness... it seemed like they wanted me to take the job more than I did, as the culture of the places they were trying to place me was waaaay too corporate for me... one went broke, the other's not a great place to work I hear from my grapevine.... so be careful
- orrinward0
Be wary of recruiters getting to you while you're in a job.
Companies often alert recruiters to their own employees when they see a downsizing coming, so you leave before they have to offer you redundancy.
- orrinward0
Also, be careful when you sign up to a recruiter. Your details get thrown around all over the place. I unsubbed from all the recruiters I signed up for and still get 2 or 3 calls and over 30 emails a week from recruiters that got given my details.
'Yes I am Orrin. No I am not still looking for work. I'm happy where I am' happens so often that when my phone rings my boss jokingly asks if I'm leaving him for someone else.
When I graduated Uni I signed up for about 10 recruiters (the big behemoths and some of the smaller, design-oriented ones) and I've had calls from probably 40 different companies.
- fugged0
I find their daily spam to be most annoying.
- akrok0
they pay you in peanuts though.
- d0mino0
thanks for the tips dudes.