Hey, nothing to be sorry about. Couple of reasons why my reply was rude:
I encounter recruiters on our freelance community who hire developers daily but doesn't know the tech stack of their client.
I sent the link of my resume on the onset of my email. This instance is already the third time he/she asked for the link of my resume.
I don't play the nice guy when I look for work. It make me looks desperate when I be nice to recruiters.
Those recruiters cut more than what they can have on their plate from the salary of the developers they hire. The reason they do that is because "they are able to look for clients while developers don't know how" or in lay-mans term "that's how we earn money".
A recruiter that doesn't know what tech stack to look for is just bad at his job. As in any other field, there are good ones and bad ones.
Seems like that particular person isn't the sharpest tool in the shade, or perhaps was simply having a bad day.
I don't know how it is where you work, but where I work playing the nice guy can really pay off, whenever you can pool that off. I've made my fair share of mistakes in that area, but I've learned that when you are nice to others, you're more likely to get their nice side.
Yes, that's how they make their money, and there's nothing wrong with it. Not everyone can do everything, you know. One of the reasons why I don't freelance is because I don't want to run around looking for clients. I'm simply not very good at it. I rather having my boss do that, and simply get paid for what I do best. The question about how big their byte is - that's usually negotiable.
I've experienced being used when I was nice, hence the decision to leave the nice guy behind me and learning from that mistake. But of course, it would always depend on the situation.
Now on a more discussion-centric conversation wherein personal experiences, characters and attitudes are set aside and instead are focused on the idea, I think on this situation, I did what's best, said what I felt and was good that I was frank.
There are far more important things to do rather than saying "I'm sorry, did you encounter any problem downloading my resume from the link I gave you? would you like me to send you the file instead?". That would make the hiring manager think that he/she can control the situation which I don't want to happen.
I'm both a student of Software Development and a Tech Recruiter here in London. Whether you're freelance or perm doesn't matter, if you have a terrible attitude and you're rude, why would I put you forward to anything?
You are representing me, as the person to provide the right talent for the job. Believe it or not we don't all take huge bonuses, so I'm definitely not going to risk my reputation with someone who's attitude stinks, and I would expect other recruiters have the same outlook.
Hey, nothing to be sorry about. Couple of reasons why my reply was rude:
A recruiter that doesn't know what tech stack to look for is just bad at his job. As in any other field, there are good ones and bad ones.
Seems like that particular person isn't the sharpest tool in the shade, or perhaps was simply having a bad day.
I don't know how it is where you work, but where I work playing the nice guy can really pay off, whenever you can pool that off. I've made my fair share of mistakes in that area, but I've learned that when you are nice to others, you're more likely to get their nice side.
Yes, that's how they make their money, and there's nothing wrong with it. Not everyone can do everything, you know. One of the reasons why I don't freelance is because I don't want to run around looking for clients. I'm simply not very good at it. I rather having my boss do that, and simply get paid for what I do best. The question about how big their byte is - that's usually negotiable.
I've experienced being used when I was nice, hence the decision to leave the nice guy behind me and learning from that mistake. But of course, it would always depend on the situation.
Now on a more discussion-centric conversation wherein personal experiences, characters and attitudes are set aside and instead are focused on the idea, I think on this situation, I did what's best, said what I felt and was good that I was frank.
There are far more important things to do rather than saying "I'm sorry, did you encounter any problem downloading my resume from the link I gave you? would you like me to send you the file instead?". That would make the hiring manager think that he/she can control the situation which I don't want to happen.
In that case, I think you probably could have stopped with "The link I sent is a link to a pdf file."
Saying "What's wrong with you?" is a pretty mean, inflammatory thing to say. I wouldn't hire someone who said that to another person, ever.
The recruiter is still a person. There's nothing "wrong with them".
I think I should've asked "are you ok" instead of "whats wrong with you" 😄
That works! 😂
ok minus one client hahahahaha
I'm both a student of Software Development and a Tech Recruiter here in London. Whether you're freelance or perm doesn't matter, if you have a terrible attitude and you're rude, why would I put you forward to anything?
You are representing me, as the person to provide the right talent for the job. Believe it or not we don't all take huge bonuses, so I'm definitely not going to risk my reputation with someone who's attitude stinks, and I would expect other recruiters have the same outlook.
I'll leave this here to rest my case