Timeline for How do I find a recruiter that's actually worth working with?
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| Jan 8, 2013 at 18:09 | comment | added | MrFox | I know of people doing this in finance, but that is for $200K+ jobs. | |
| Jan 8, 2013 at 17:04 | comment | added | Hi pals | @Chad I'm starting to feel that way too. Are there any tips for hunting down good recruiters that might have top jobs listed exclusively with them other than posting resumes to job sites and waiting for a call or cold calling random agencies and hoping they have what I want? | |
| Jan 8, 2013 at 17:00 | comment | added | IDrinkandIKnowThings | I found that using the job hunting sites was the worst thing you can do for finding a good recruiter. You can find positions there but the recruiters that use them tend to suck. The other suggestions are good. | |
| Jan 8, 2013 at 16:48 | comment | added | Hi pals | Sure taking my resume down will reduce the calls. But that leaves me with the original question. How do I actively seek out the kind of recruiter that I want to work with? It's always been a passive process on my part involving sifting through the spam and picking out the one or two that aren't form letters and actually meet my requirements and following up. As you mentioned in your answer, I can just call up some of the bigger names in my area, but what can I do to ensure that I get paired up with someone that isn't the type of person I'm looking to avoid there? | |
| Jan 8, 2013 at 16:42 | history | edited | MrFox | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 8, 2013 at 16:41 | comment | added | MrFox | Email filters :)? 10+ Emails/5 phone calls a day sounds excessive. In my experience if you pull down your resume from workopolis they all stop after a month or so. Finally if you're only getting crap from them, then you can always just blacklist them straight to spam. | |
| Jan 8, 2013 at 16:34 | comment | added | Hi pals | And I know the answer to that is to only respond to the ones that act that way, but I'm hoping for an easy way to weed out the junk. Just to put it into perspective, I receive 10+ emails and at least 5 phone calls a day, with only about 1 or two worthwhile positions in a given month being presented. Maybe weeding through all of the copy and paste spam is the only way to find those diamonds in the rough, but I was really hoping someone had an inside scoop about an alternate way :) | |
| Jan 8, 2013 at 16:32 | comment | added | Hi pals |
Who knows, maybe for whatever reason you will find one of the offers attractive? - And I suppose that's part of the issue. After I respond to those poor positions saying something like "I appreciate you reaching out about this, but I'm not interested in contract work and I'd only relocate to another major metro area unless telecommute is involved," many times they continue to send unappealing offers. I know I'm the product, not the customer, but I'm looking for a way to hone in on recruiters that will treat me as less of a product and pay more attention to what I actually say.
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| Jan 8, 2013 at 16:28 | history | answered | MrFox | CC BY-SA 3.0 |