Over many years of experience, I've found that tech recruiters (with very few exceptions) are generally best avoided - both as a candidate, and as an employer
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Good points. I understand this opinion because I once held the same one.
From my experience, I tried to find a role in the past year while I was self-employed. I was rejected or ghosted by over 600 applications.
The full-time roles I've held have only come from relationships with good recruiters. The steps I took above allowed me to weed out the bad recruiters. Those who:
had 2 years or less years experience
could not answer the majority of my questions or
could not really build rapport with me were immediately ditched.
This approach is how you screen the recruiters to find those exceptions, so yeah, I agree with you that most tech recruiters can be avoided as a candidate.
I cannot speak to dealing with recruiters as an employer, but maybe I'd have to trust others judgment there.
Thanks for chiming in. I'm definitely not the only voice here.
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Over many years of experience, I've found that tech recruiters (with very few exceptions) are generally best avoided - both as a candidate, and as an employer
Good points. I understand this opinion because I once held the same one.
From my experience, I tried to find a role in the past year while I was self-employed. I was rejected or ghosted by over 600 applications.
The full-time roles I've held have only come from relationships with good recruiters. The steps I took above allowed me to weed out the bad recruiters. Those who:
This approach is how you screen the recruiters to find those exceptions, so yeah, I agree with you that most tech recruiters can be avoided as a candidate.
I cannot speak to dealing with recruiters as an employer, but maybe I'd have to trust others judgment there.
Thanks for chiming in. I'm definitely not the only voice here.