Hi all, I am a moneygrubbing scumbag recruiter and to quote Gore Vidal... "I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television." (I had to look it up)
But really... I feel like Pam Anderson during her roast on comedy central. Awww thanks guys, you must really love us.
Truthfully, you MUST know we're necessary; like cockroaches, attorneys and tax accountants, we are necessary. We're part of the food chain whether you like it or not. Whether you're dealing with a newbie or someone like me; I've been recruiting IT for 7 years and know the difference between Oracle and SQL databases (one of them is made by Microsoft.. I think), a server and a firewall, hardware and software development,.Net versus Java, Unix versus Novell versus windows versus Linux blah blah blah, you MUST by now know our nature. I (we) don't really care about it (technology)at all.
I love reading all the posts. Some of you are still idealistic enough to want to find a better way. Face facts; we recruiters for the most part are HR hacks or money grubbing scum (again nature)and we're not going to change. And as long as companies (who are usually run by money grubbing scum) struggle to find 'talent' we'll be here, like it or not. Why? Because like a 16 year old drunk on daddy's 12 year old hooch in the backseat of his 93 Caprice with 'that girl' we sometimes score. And whether we get all warm and gooey because we've helped out or because we made $$$$ is really irrelevant to the whole scenario. Yes, there are times when I heed a higher calling and put money into the karma bank. But 99% of the time, I am paying my mortgage/car payment/daughter's future braces. The others want to 'save' you. Your railing against this is as age old as cats v dogs, Jews v Muslims, Lindsay v Hilary.
Accept it; accept the very nature of the dumb/stupid/uninformed/uneducated/can't code worth $#! recruiter ok? Only one of the responses I read (I didn't read them all because all these damn VB guys won't stop calling me to tell me that they should be put forward for my Java role because they used it once and hey it's all the same principle anyway and they'd just need a week to get ramped up with it) was pragmatic/cynical enough to see that a relationship with a recruiter is pure co-dependency... use/use. My best contractor relationships have all started out that way and through jerking each other around and eventually arriving at honesty due to running out of lies, we actually found out that we had grown to kind of like each other, heck even mildly respect each other.
But that is rare indeed.
Recruiter: Hi... I have a great opportunity that may be a good fit for your background. Tell me about your UNIX experience with XYZ company.
You: (what we hear) blah blah blah SOLARIS blah blah blah MY BOSS IS AN IDIOT blah blah blah SHOULD HAVE GONE WITH REDHAT blah blah blah I CAN MANAGE ANY PROJECT BETTER blah blah blah LINUX.
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Hi all, I am a moneygrubbing scumbag recruiter and to quote Gore Vidal... "I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television." (I had to look it up)
But really... I feel like Pam Anderson during her roast on comedy central. Awww thanks guys, you must really love us.
Truthfully, you MUST know we're necessary; like cockroaches, attorneys and tax accountants, we are necessary. We're part of the food chain whether you like it or not. Whether you're dealing with a newbie or someone like me; I've been recruiting IT for 7 years and know the difference between Oracle and SQL databases (one of them is made by Microsoft.. I think), a server and a firewall, hardware and software development, .Net versus Java, Unix versus Novell versus windows versus Linux blah blah blah, you MUST by now know our nature. I (we) don't really care about it (technology)at all.
I love reading all the posts. Some of you are still idealistic enough to want to find a better way. Face facts; we recruiters for the most part are HR hacks or money grubbing scum (again nature)and we're not going to change. And as long as companies (who are usually run by money grubbing scum) struggle to find 'talent' we'll be here, like it or not. Why? Because like a 16 year old drunk on daddy's 12 year old hooch in the backseat of his 93 Caprice with 'that girl' we sometimes score. And whether we get all warm and gooey because we've helped out or because we made $$$$ is really irrelevant to the whole scenario. Yes, there are times when I heed a higher calling and put money into the karma bank. But 99% of the time, I am paying my mortgage/car payment/daughter's future braces. The others want to 'save' you. Your railing against this is as age old as cats v dogs, Jews v Muslims, Lindsay v Hilary.
Accept it; accept the very nature of the dumb/stupid/uninformed/uneducated/can't code worth $#! recruiter ok? Only one of the responses I read (I didn't read them all because all these damn VB guys won't stop calling me to tell me that they should be put forward for my Java role because they used it once and hey it's all the same principle anyway and they'd just need a week to get ramped up with it) was pragmatic/cynical enough to see that a relationship with a recruiter is pure co-dependency... use/use. My best contractor relationships have all started out that way and through jerking each other around and eventually arriving at honesty due to running out of lies, we actually found out that we had grown to kind of like each other, heck even mildly respect each other.
But that is rare indeed.
Recruiter: Hi... I have a great opportunity that may be a good fit for your background. Tell me about your UNIX experience with XYZ company.
You: (what we hear) blah blah blah SOLARIS blah blah blah MY BOSS IS AN IDIOT blah blah blah SHOULD HAVE GONE WITH REDHAT blah blah blah I CAN MANAGE ANY PROJECT BETTER blah blah blah LINUX.
Recruiter: Great... when can you come by?