I'm sorry if there is any confusion on the popcorn reference. I was referring to the attitudes of the head hunters I've run into in the past.
Part of my problem is that head hunters are so interested in getting their cut that they don't listen to me. I don't need meaningful. Heaven knows, I've done lots of meaningless things for one company or another. All I ask for is a decent work environment and for Perl to be one of the main requirements of the job.
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Try www.headhunter.net, a lot of companies is posting jobs there without headhunters.
- average cut for a head hunter agency in this area is 20-30% of first years salary.
So what? It's not from your pocket - company pays it, and they make sure headhunter delivers for it. If you can find jobs without them, do it.
I worked couple months as a recruiter in placement agency. I will recommend this experience to each graduate - do it for 3 months for free as an intern! It will teach you the other side of business: That you have 10 job descriptions you are working with, and hundreds or thousands potential candidates. Sometimes you have the same positions what are posted on net. But you know more about the company than what is posted: because company is your client, you know something about inside politics in company, what they plan to do next, what thay really need (but HR did not want to print it in ad). You work with same manager hiring programmers for months, you know him by voice in phone. If you send him many wrong candidates without screening, you lose his business. You know how interview with previous candidate went, and why s/he was rejected, or why salary negotiation fizzled. You'll be able to read hundreds of resumes, learn how simple they should be, and how to make recruiter's job simpler (so make your resume be more likely to be picked).
Really, I recommend any young programmer to try to play the other side.
pmas
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Am I the only person with good experiences with a head hunter? 9 months
ago, I moved from the USA to Europe. On a Sunday, I posted my resume on
a website. Monday morning 9.30 I got called by a recruiting office.
Chatted for a while to find out what I wanted, and then it was decided I
was best helped by one of their other recruiters, who called me back
half an hour later. Talked several times that day, and by the end of the
day, he had set me up with 2 interviews on Wednesday. On Friday morning,
I had a third interview, and by noon on Friday I had 3 offers.
Half a year later, the company I then worked for was heading for
bankruptcy, so I resigned. Called the same recruiter, late on a Friday
afternoon. By 7 PM he had arranged 2 interviews for me, one on Monday,
one on Tuesday. While I was interviewing on Monday, an interview for
a third company was set up, also on the Monday, and I went back to the
first company for a second interview that same Monday. By Wednesday, all
three companies had made me offers and the option to interview with a
fourth company.
Of course, that doesn't help you with your search in Manhattan. I don't
know any recruiters/head hunters there (but I wouldn't have a problem
finding work there, networking beats most head hunting). I do have one
advice though. Don't try to get something as a "Perl Programmer". That's
very limiting. Try to present yourself as being broader that just being
able to program in Perl.
-- Abigail
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