I've gotten one (1) job -- a contracting gig -- by way of a headhunter, clear back in '91. Since then, I've left my name with a few headhunters, but have gotten no good leads, and one headhunter flat-out tried to screw me over. (Or lied. Or both.) Since I moved to NH in '93, I've gotten one job via Usenet, and the remaining four by way of personal networking. I guess it's hard to overstate just how important that is. One thing to consider is the GNHLUG jobs list, which is how I got my most-recent[-1] job.
-Ken On 2016-09-01 13:52, Arc Riley wrote: > My experience with recruiters is an extremely high signal:noise ratio. > Increasingly, recruiters (not company staff) are conducting phone interviews, > setting up on-site interviews themselves, and provide little to no > information on the actual position you're interviewing for. > > I've had recruiters line up job interviews "that you're a perfect match for" > that turn out to be for .Net, Ruby, even one that was a windows sysadmin > position. I've also shown up for interviews which were not actually scheduled > (including Google, who flew me to NYC without actually scheduling the > interview) or shown up to find a waiting area full of applicants with staff > scrambling to conduct "speed dating" style 15 minute interviews. > > After it all my recommendation is to mark any contact from a recruiter as > spam. To +1 previous advice on this thread, the best way to find a job is > going to meetups and making personal connections with employees. > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Richard Kolb II <richard.k...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I would have to agree with the personal network comments. The last job that I > applied for, and got, was in 2003. I've had 3 jobs since then, and they've > all been through contacts from linkedin or a personal reference. > > Richard Kolb II > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 9:54 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1...@gmail.com> wrote: > The ones i liked retired. > > Outplacement firm i worked with most recently said % of jobs found > through personal network is growing. Getting hired as an internal > referral saves them the hassle of dealing with Monster or Zip or ... , > and is usually better per-screened by the referrer, for free. They > recommended strong use of LinkedIn to reconstruct who you used to know > so you can leverage their eyes and ears. > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ [1] > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ [1] _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ [1] Links: ------ [1] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
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