[LRUG] ADVICE

[Jim Myhrberg]

That's pretty much the same experience I've had with recruiters too.

I've been offered various iOS development roles too, despite never having
touched iOS development or Objective-C. But my resume does mention I worked
on an island in Greece called "Ios" (that's "ios" with a capital "i"). In
short, they use stupid case-insensitive text searches of CVs without
actually reading them.

-jimeh
On 24 May 2013 13:11, "Alex Heeton" <alex at heeton.me> wrote:

> Rob,
>
> I can only share my bad personal experiences. I'm a freelancer and happy
> to accept roles via recruiters, but I ask one thing:
>
> Here's what I'm good at and what I'm looking for. Please only talk to me
>> about positions that are a good fit for me.
>
>
> I tell this to everyone who contacts me, and invariably the next message
> is something like
>
> Here are 3 roles that match your skills, could you have a look and let me
>> know which ones you are interested in?
>
>
> The roles don't match my skills or goals, and normally show a stupidly big
> range from 30k junior developer to 90k senior sysadmin.
>
> When Enthuse.me used a recruiter, he contacted me about the role, not even
> doing some basic checks to find out that I *already* worked there.
>
>
> I've only ever experienced this dumb shotgun-scatter recruitment. Perhaps
> there are better recruiters, but I've yet to work with one :)
>
> ~Alex
>
>  Message: 2
>> Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 10:29:47 +0100
>> From: Rob Beattie <RBeattie at recruit360.co.uk>
>> To: "chat at lists.lrug.org" <chat at lists.lrug.org>
>> Subject: [LRUG] ADVICE
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>>
>> Morning all,
>>
>> I hope you are well.
>>
>> I appreciate this might be opening a can of worms but I'm keen to get
>> your thoughts and ideally some advice.
>>
>> I signed up to LRUG a month or so ago in order to try and gain a better
>> understanding of the Ruby market in London.  I've had a positive response
>> from a few candidates but generally speaking I see antipathy towards
>> recruitment consultants / agencies.
>>
>> I know there's a stigma attached to our industry but I can assure you we
>> aren't all bad!
>>
>> What I'm trying to understand is why employers, and to a certain extent
>> candidates, are so against working with agencies?  Is it because of fees?
>> Have you had bad experiences?  If it's company policy, why is it company
>> policy?
>>
>> I appreciate there are a lot of companies who now operate a direct
>> sourcing model and simply don't need to use agencies.  I get that and I
>> understand your reasoning behind this, but for companies who are struggling
>> to find good candidates, and don't have the resources in place to spend the
>> majority of their day sourcing candidates, why won't you use agencies?
>>
>> For those of you who are open to working with agencies, what do you feel
>> is the best way for me to approach your company?
>>
>> I'm open to suggestions, although things like die, rot in hell and get
>> out of recruitment aren't options I'm afraid :-)
>>
>> I take pride in what I do and so it would be really helpful to get your
>> thoughts.
>>
>> I don't want to clog up the mailing list so if you have any thoughts /
>> advice, I'd be extremely grateful if you drop me an email or alternatively,
>> feel free to give me a call.
>>
>> I look forward to hearing from you.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Rob
>>
>
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