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0 pointsfuzz4lyfe6y ago0 comments

Firms don't want you to know it, but they are struggling to hire competent IT professionals to an extreme degree. Recruiters are being regularly ghosted (like they used to do to candidates) and turn over is increasing. That's why you see them resulting to tricks like this. One thing to keep in mind is that most managers working today cut their teeth when unemployment was at 10% or so, as such they really only know about bait and switch tactics and the stick. Carrots aren't something that really fits into their mental model.

In short, to anyone reading this. Now is the time to make your move.

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Izkata6y ago

> Recruiters are being regularly ghosted (like they used to do to candidates)

Not sure if this is the same thing (with "ghosted"), but I have 3 rock-bottom criteria before I'll respond to a recruiter's email:

* Send to the email on my resume, not my personal one.

* Show that they've read (or at least keyword-matched) my resume.

* Something in the job description should at least be vaguely enticing, such as a technology I have on my resume. The same thing can hit both points 2 and 3, the depending on how the email is structured.

In nearly 10 years, a grand total of one recruiter got all these points. Half of them failed on the first one.

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