My advice is include the job boards in a small % of your search, say 15% and spend the rest of the time networking w/ good honest recruiters from the smaller niche firms and selling your skills directly to hirirng managers. Remember, a recruiter has to sell sell sell to get their foot in the door and so do you. Snoop around, make calls into companies, find out the org. structure and target your search accordingly. Don't even bother wasting your time w/ HR (human resistance) and go to the source, the hiring manager who is in need of some help. This is how you will be heard and be seen. Compare this to being resume # 299,563 in some huge db. Hiring managers are also up to their ears in resumes and a phone call could quickly get you to the top of that stack.
I agree! I hate to say it, but salesfolk are a dime a dozen these days. For all of the bs this guy puts up with there are probably 50 great sales people who are hungry to sell and would perform well. Sales Reps for IT shops are infamous for milking a few accounts and doing nothing more. Cut their commissions on accounts after 60 days and send them off to hunt for more business.
If they have no backbone...Can em and move on.
Like I said....forget about it. Don't waste your time. The job boards are for inept recruiters that can't find anyone on their own and for the shady recruiters that harvest your resume and send it off w/ out your knowledge to their clients. They are merely fishing and snake the good honest recruiters out of helping you be/c when you/they find something good, you will inevitably get "your resume is already on file." They spend their days spamming clients w/ your resume.....
I am not sure how many people know about this, but many staffing firms do this. My advice is to find a hungry recruiter who needs to eat, impress them w/ you skills and get them to find you a job. It's what they do. But make sure they listen and have at least half a brain!
Don't say I didn't tell you wusuup!
True! And as for the OSDL piece.....let us not forget how corporate politics can get in the way of developing cutting-edge technologies.....just look at the IETF and it's recent exodus of participants. I am not pissing on their achievments.....it's just the most sane way to get from point A to B.
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My advice is include the job boards in a small % of your search, say 15% and spend the rest of the time networking w/ good honest recruiters from the smaller niche firms and selling your skills directly to hirirng managers. Remember, a recruiter has to sell sell sell to get their foot in the door and so do you. Snoop around, make calls into companies, find out the org. structure and target your search accordingly. Don't even bother wasting your time w/ HR (human resistance) and go to the source, the hiring manager who is in need of some help. This is how you will be heard and be seen. Compare this to being resume # 299,563 in some huge db. Hiring managers are also up to their ears in resumes and a phone call could quickly get you to the top of that stack.
I agree! I hate to say it, but salesfolk are a dime a dozen these days. For all of the bs this guy puts up with there are probably 50 great sales people who are hungry to sell and would perform well. Sales Reps for IT shops are infamous for milking a few accounts and doing nothing more. Cut their commissions on accounts after 60 days and send them off to hunt for more business. If they have no backbone...Can em and move on.
Like I said....forget about it. Don't waste your time. The job boards are for inept recruiters that can't find anyone on their own and for the shady recruiters that harvest your resume and send it off w/ out your knowledge to their clients. They are merely fishing and snake the good honest recruiters out of helping you be/c when you/they find something good, you will inevitably get "your resume is already on file." They spend their days spamming clients w/ your resume..... I am not sure how many people know about this, but many staffing firms do this. My advice is to find a hungry recruiter who needs to eat, impress them w/ you skills and get them to find you a job. It's what they do. But make sure they listen and have at least half a brain! Don't say I didn't tell you wusuup!
True! And as for the OSDL piece.....let us not forget how corporate politics can get in the way of developing cutting-edge technologies.....just look at the IETF and it's recent exodus of participants. I am not pissing on their achievments.....it's just the most sane way to get from point A to B.