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Discussion on: WTF is wrong with recruiters?

 
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Davide de Paolis

thanx for the long reply.
the article is referring - and all the commenters were referring - to recruiting agency and external recruiters or head hunters or whatever we want to call them. I don´t think anyone meant HR people recruiting for their company.
Honestly I have absolutely nothing against that process. And it´s normal having the steps you mentioned - because I am already in contact with the company!

The annoying part is mostly the emails and phone calls from external recruiters, which bring absolutely nothing.

So to answer your questions:
1) For me internal recruiters are just fine. and i am not bothered or annoyed by them at all.
2) hard to say.

  • Go to Meetups and connect,
  • join these Recruiting Speed Dating events that are being organized anywhere nowadays,
  • search github, blogs and dev forums and network with people,
  • use referral systems among your employees so that they are prompted to share job opening on their social networks. etc..

And anyway, honestly. I am actively looking for a job, I google all the companies / startups that are in my area. and apply to those that I like. so just having a website and be on google maps it´s enought to be on my radar :-)