I just told a LinkedIn recruiter the exact same thing 2 days ago. My work is public, I have projects on GitHub, YouTube videos going over my projects, I'm a contestant in a start-up competition/accelerator, and my credentials are listed in a few places.
I told the recruiter that if I'm a good fit for a role, the employer can find me or at the very least- have someone from the team reach out directly.
I'd be a great addition to the right team, and probably a sub-par addition to the wrong one. I won't take a job that I'm not qualified for and interested in.
I'm reaching my breaking point because I get recruiters reaching out to hire me for software stacks that I've never worked with and that I'm not willing to learn. I'm a NodeJS guy with a history in .net but I get Java offers almost daily and even the occasional PHP. Not only do they flood my inbox but they don't take the time to confirm my software stack or even credentials.
As a software developer, I would build a scouting solution if I didn't have so many other projects in the works.
There is an epidemic of lazy recruiters right now and it's made LinkedIn almost unusable.
Wow, that is too bad about getting slammed with recruiters. It has been somewhat similar to me as well, then I will do a phone convo with them and they will say "oh, they are looking for someone with 3 years of experience in React".... I'll be like dude, why did you contact me lol
I'm a Vue developer (for the most part) but I have dabbled in react and I could get comfortable enough to take a job with it in just about a week. Anything in the JavaScript ecosystem. Probably even angular although I expect angular would take a little bit longer than react because it's so much more opinionated.
But I think that most employers will understand that. I think that any employer that would only hire me as a 'Vue developer' would feel short sighted. BUT - I would never take a job as a PHP developer. I turned down a job recently as a developer on an ASP.net web app with bootstrap and jQuery (because it sounded like a really boring stack) - but the lead developer expressed that he wanted to redesign the website with a more modern technology eventually, I suggested that he turned it over to me and that I rebuild it with Blazor and he felt that it wasn't mature enough of a technology.
I've gotten a lot of job offers in .net but I haven't touched the .net ecosystem since I fall in love with node.
I'm not sure what it's like for most developers who are looking for a job at the moment but I get the feeling that any employer should be able to find enough information about me if they want to that they should know if I'm a good fit for the job before they even reach out. There's so much information available, even just on GitHub. The trend of HR people without development experience hiring developers is a really bad trend that does nothing but waste everyone's time all around.
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I just told a LinkedIn recruiter the exact same thing 2 days ago. My work is public, I have projects on GitHub, YouTube videos going over my projects, I'm a contestant in a start-up competition/accelerator, and my credentials are listed in a few places.
I told the recruiter that if I'm a good fit for a role, the employer can find me or at the very least- have someone from the team reach out directly.
I'd be a great addition to the right team, and probably a sub-par addition to the wrong one. I won't take a job that I'm not qualified for and interested in.
I'm reaching my breaking point because I get recruiters reaching out to hire me for software stacks that I've never worked with and that I'm not willing to learn. I'm a NodeJS guy with a history in .net but I get Java offers almost daily and even the occasional PHP. Not only do they flood my inbox but they don't take the time to confirm my software stack or even credentials.
As a software developer, I would build a scouting solution if I didn't have so many other projects in the works.
There is an epidemic of lazy recruiters right now and it's made LinkedIn almost unusable.
Wow, that is too bad about getting slammed with recruiters. It has been somewhat similar to me as well, then I will do a phone convo with them and they will say "oh, they are looking for someone with 3 years of experience in React".... I'll be like dude, why did you contact me lol
I'm a Vue developer (for the most part) but I have dabbled in react and I could get comfortable enough to take a job with it in just about a week. Anything in the JavaScript ecosystem. Probably even angular although I expect angular would take a little bit longer than react because it's so much more opinionated.
But I think that most employers will understand that. I think that any employer that would only hire me as a 'Vue developer' would feel short sighted. BUT - I would never take a job as a PHP developer. I turned down a job recently as a developer on an ASP.net web app with bootstrap and jQuery (because it sounded like a really boring stack) - but the lead developer expressed that he wanted to redesign the website with a more modern technology eventually, I suggested that he turned it over to me and that I rebuild it with Blazor and he felt that it wasn't mature enough of a technology.
I've gotten a lot of job offers in .net but I haven't touched the .net ecosystem since I fall in love with node.
I'm not sure what it's like for most developers who are looking for a job at the moment but I get the feeling that any employer should be able to find enough information about me if they want to that they should know if I'm a good fit for the job before they even reach out. There's so much information available, even just on GitHub. The trend of HR people without development experience hiring developers is a really bad trend that does nothing but waste everyone's time all around.