Most of the recruiters who contact me on Linkedin are really unprofessional and annoying, they just do a text search and spam you with stuff (I made a small webtool called lazy-bastards to help them :D).
But the one that made me change to my current company was quite good. He actually read my cv, was really there for me to trade my salary/bonuses, he managed to buy me time on the weekend for the tech test and he managed to get me a skype interview rather than for me to go to the place myself.
I always try to keep in mind, though, that they are sales people, and you should take out 90% of what they say to you to find out what they mean.
They see you just as a fisherman would see a nice 300Kg Tuna, if they are clever enough they can sell that fish and make a fortune, before going straight to the next fish, but that does not allow them to be unprofessional, their job is quite easy really, the only part that I would not be able to do is the trade, and to talk people into changing job, that is why they are recruiters and I am not :D
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Most of the recruiters who contact me on Linkedin are really unprofessional and annoying, they just do a text search and spam you with stuff (I made a small webtool called lazy-bastards to help them :D).
But the one that made me change to my current company was quite good. He actually read my cv, was really there for me to trade my salary/bonuses, he managed to buy me time on the weekend for the tech test and he managed to get me a skype interview rather than for me to go to the place myself.
I always try to keep in mind, though, that they are sales people, and you should take out 90% of what they say to you to find out what they mean.
They see you just as a fisherman would see a nice 300Kg Tuna, if they are clever enough they can sell that fish and make a fortune, before going straight to the next fish, but that does not allow them to be unprofessional, their job is quite easy really, the only part that I would not be able to do is the trade, and to talk people into changing job, that is why they are recruiters and I am not :D