Rise of the Anti-Recruiters

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7 pointsjosh_fyi4 comments

Yes! Recruiters are spamming their way to the bottom as their ship goes down.

But I'd love to see some recruiters who act like they care about both sides of the deal, and make things easy on us.

Interesting article, but it basically boils down to calling the best recruiters matchmakers and reserve the word recruiters for the bottom of the barrel.

It's just a name.

But when recruiters revamp their techniques, treat both the developer and the employer as their customer, and use the communication technology that respects people's time (e.g., not spam of any sort), then you have something different -- by whatever name you want to call it.

Except that I already know excellent recruiters that work just like you describe.

The problem is that I know two or three of them, but have interacted with hundreds by now.

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