I believe it's a mistake to apply stereotypes to third-party recruiters. I've worked with enough of them over a twenty year contracting career to know they're just people, exactly like the rest of us. The best are true professionals, very good at what they do and a real pleasure to work with. The worst can be so bad as to reflect poorly upon the entire human race. But far and away, most are simply average, decent folk doing their best to make a living.
That said, I also believe it's inappropriate for recruiters to troll technical forums for recruits. I suspect it's ineffective as well: I'd never go to a hardware store to shop for groceries, and I'd never come here to look for a job. Call me old-fashioned, but I believe jobs belong on a job board. On Sep 18, 12:19 pm, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I realize that the Rails list has historically been open to job postings, > and I generally think that's a good idea. Recently, though, there have been > several posts by third-party recruiters and recruitment firms. My > experience with third-party recruiters has been pretty mediocre, and none > of the employers I've ever had were interested in hiring through them. > There are also plenty of stories on the web describing third-party recruiters > as liars or worse. > > Even without that background, though, I've noticed that job notices from > employers themselves make an effort to be informative and to attract > quality candidates, notices from third-party recruiters are usually nothing > more than anonymized copy and paste from some job website. > > I propose that we, as a community, consider this list closed to third-party > recruiters while continuing to welcome job notices from direct employers. > Job notices are always noise here, as opposed to the signal of technical > discussion of Rails, but those from third-party recruiters are actively > unpleasant and largely useless noise in a way in which direct employer > notices are not. > > --Greg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
