Much thanks you all for the input here. It looks like the pain with recruiters is shared across the glob on the similar level. I will make a test run and try to filter recruiters out and see how much is left of it. Maybe not all companies trusted them.
Also after reading the input I should rephrase the question to "Would you apply for the job from recruiters add?" Also apologies for the latency to AU, I will try to fix that soon. Thanks again. On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 6:00 AM, Anthony Briggs <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > melbourne-pug mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug > >
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