so how do we approach developers without causing offence?

.Net Dave — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 15:40:24 +0000

So as a recruiter I am very interested to understand how its best to actually approach developers in the market.
There is a lot of discussions about CRM based emails (keyword focused and usually very inaccurate) obviously these are not great.
I hear a lot of complaints about LinkedIn approaches, to be honest I think its a fair thing to do if the role is an actual match i.e. you have gone to the very small effort to read someones profile.
So do we phone? Its hard to reach people in the day and I bet you get a lot of these and if I am honest people probably return calls about 5% of the time.
so what then ? text? WhatsApp?

How would you all like to be approached by people in my industry and what is the way to not offend? (Before it's said I only approach people about relevant positions and I most certainly know the difference between Java and JavaScript!)

Recruiters we all hate them!

.Net Dave — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 11:31:01 +0000

So I will start this by saying I am a recruiter.

BUT...

I have been a recruiter for nearly 12 years and all of those have been in recruiting software developers.

I thought I would write this article because I joined this board to genuinely understand more about the technology I work with, to understand the people and to understand market trends.
Sadly the issue I see is the same as on sites liked LinkedIn, everyone hates recruiters.

So I thought I would try to put another angle across to you all.

Do you have any idea how hard is it to be a recruiter?

No this isn't a sob story this is a simple question?

I work long hours for zero commission if I don't place anyone. There seems to be a strange opinion we are paid fantastic amounts of money and actually do very little. The truth is the opposite we get paid well if we work incredibly hard and during this time of working hard expect to be hated by everyone (for no real reason) lied to by the people you represent, treated as an inconvenience, disrespected and if you find something else before I place you feel free to not attend an interview, not answer your phone and potentially destroy my relationship with a client for no reason at all...

But we are hated? Seems strange.

Many of us work really hard and actually genuinely try to be good people. Why is it that if one person doesn't get a job or is treated in way they dislike an entire sector (110,000 people + in the UK alone) are universally criminalised?

So in ending I would like to ask why we are all so bad?

DEV Community: .Net Dave

so how do we approach developers without causing offence?

Recruiters we all hate them!