Hi Sebastian, My personal experience is that recruiters don't provide much, if any, value.
The only job that I've sourced through a recruiter was a terrible, *terrible *PHP job that I quit after a week. I did have several interviews at around the same time, but a) you need to be head and shoulders above the competition for them to consider you, given recruiter's fees (~20% of the annual salary IIRC), and b) if you *are *head and shoulders above, then you'll be getting cold calls from various companies anyway and/or will be a relative shoe-in at most interviews. I've managed to get off most recruiter books after several years of working on my own stuff, but I used to get a raft of calls from them whenever a senior Python position came up. At one place I worked, it became a game to try and figure out the originating company given a particularly lazy cut+paste position from Seek or wherever. There may be some companies that work solely through a recruiter, but good luck filtering those out from the spam. Hope that helps, Anthony On 6 July 2016 at 13:08, Kiran Busi <[email protected]> wrote: > If the job is is specific to a real role, not generic information farming, > then I see it having some value. > > That said, I much prefer dealing with companies directly vs a recruiter. > > > > > On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 9:34 PM, Sebastian Pawluś < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> This might be odd question to ask here, since the list about Python and >> should probably stay as one. But living in Europe I don't know anyone from >> this part of the world and as Python programmer myself I know how Python >> community is a friendly entity ;) >> >> Anyway, the real thing is. >> >> A while ago I created an aggregator for jobs (like all it jobs). It's >> called https://whoishiring.io, then short after a person on the twitter >> suggested that I should add www.seek.com.au as a source, and I did just >> that. >> >> But then I've found out that a lot (a lot >> <https://whoishiring.io/search/-32.491/147.437/3/?order=distance>) of >> this jobs are from recruiters companies. I even created a blacklist >> <https://gist.github.com/xando/6e3a4de512f45259667833cfbb09420f> and >> planning to filter against it and exclude those jobs from listing. I don't >> like them, the website was created to increase visibility of job posts, by >> covering real company name with theirs they secretly not helping, and the >> list of problems with it recruiters is longer. >> >> The real question is should I do it. Should I filter recruiters out from >> this part of the world? Do you guys see any values in those jobs posts, are >> recruiters as bad and annoying as here? >> >> Again if this not something that should go on the list, apologies. But >> still I would like to know the your opinion so private emails welcome. >> >> Best, >> Sebastian Pawluś. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> melbourne-pug mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > melbourne-pug mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug > >
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