Tracy Reed <[email protected]> writes:

> Did you also include the salary range you are willing to pay for this 
> position?
> A lot of companies don't thinking they are going to be able play games/lowball
> the candidate and get a "deal".  But I have found that it really get people's
> interest and weeds out those with inappropriate expectations and (somewhat)
> skill levels which saves you both time. 


Oh god yes.   Include that when you ask me to reccomend someone, too.
more than once I've embarrassed myself by reccomending someone 
'very good' when someone asks for someone 'very good'  when it
turns out they want to pay intern wages.   

Don't get me wrong... there's nothing wrong with paying intern wages
and wanting the best person you can get for those wages.   But
tell me that ahead of time.  This happened not a month ago and I 
ended up reccomending one of the best network guys I know for 
what was essentially a "intern to run the IT dept" role.   I mean,
I know guys who'd love to play in the "intern running the IT dept" role,
and who'd be pretty good at it (I mean, judging them by the standards
of asking a lot of someone with little experience)  so if they
actually told me what they wanted I could have helped them.  
But instead, I ended up kinda irritating someone I really admire,
wasting the time of the recruiter (who I was helping because he 
was working with a friend) and making myself look like an asshole.

Now, the OP pretty much said he wasn't looking for interns with 
the "sage level 4" bit...  that's good.   I am mostly ranting
in the abstract here.  
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