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Hounded By Recruiters, Coders Put Themselves Up For Auction
An anonymous reader writes "When Pete London posted a resume on LinkedIn in December 2009, the JavaScript specialist stumbled into a trap of sorts. Shortly after creating a profile he received a message from a recruiter at Google. Just days later, another from Mozilla. Facebook reached out the next month and over the course of the next two years, nearly every big name in tech – attempt to lure him to a new employer. He received 530 messages in all, or one every 40 hours ... the only problem? Pete London didn't exist."
how many of the jobs didn't exist as well?
or are 3-4 recruiters all going after the same job??
Copyright isn't the issue. Quoting from copyrighted content is fair use.
Plagiarism, on the other hand, is trying to pass off someone else's work as your own.
In this case, the summary says "an anonymous reader writes..." when the actual author is not anonymous and not the submitter of the story.
Heck, at the very least put "J.J. Colao writes for Forbes..." That would be honest, but this is just shitty journalism.
I've solved that problem by telling all recruiters that my minimum is $160k first thing. If I get it, great. If not, I'm happy where I am.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Also, if your company wants to hire "top 5% talent" then you need to be a top 5% employer. Top talent does not want to piss away their career in the IT department of Bank of America, for instance. If you're trying to hire top talent but are an average company, then you are the equivalent of an old fat bald dude trying to date young supermodels. It ONLY works if there's a lot of money involved.