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Peter Jachim

I have worked with a few recruiters, in two fields: regulatory affairs, and data science.

The regulatory affairs recruiters would negotiate with the company on your behalf, and, for my friends who got hired, they would go through their current contract line by line and negotiate the crap out of the hiring company, until you got lots of perks in addition to a great salary. When I worked in RA I probably had a half dozen recruiters reaching out to me every week, the situation for RA is kind of crazy because of a bunch of new regulations with upcoming big deadlines.

For technical/data science recruiters, I have gotten a few interviews, and they have generally been pretty good about framing my experience and prepping me for interviews. One recruiter reached out to me via LinkedIn from a small agency, I reached out to one recruiter who helped a friend of a friend, and I reached out to Tek Systems because I had heard good things about them. For the small one that helped a friend of a friend, they wanted to meet me in person and they gave an interview that day with a hiring manager who they thought would be a good fit. I am hoping that as my career advances the technical/Data Science recruiters will be a little more like the RA ones.