There's a GNHLUG jobs list?
Richard Kolb II On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <k...@jots.org> wrote: > 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/ >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnhlug-discuss mailing list >> gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org >> http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > > > >
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