I have only once in my career came across a very reputable and knowledgeable technical recuiter who understood today’s technology and actually bothered to read my resume and placed me in a company that was compatible with my skills and career goals. Lately, I have been job hunting again and have run into so called “technical recruiters” who are neither technical nor good at recruiting. They waste my time with positions which I am not interested in (after specifically telling them what I want and don’t want), either due to job requirements or low salary. Are they so driven by dumping someone into any job for a quick commission that they don’t bother to read resumes and listen to what we are telling them? OK, the market isn’t so hot right now and some people will take anything, but come on, you wouldn’t place a plumber to do an electrician’s job or vice versa. A lot of these recruiters are either fresh out of college and think they are technical or are former telemarketers with the same arrogance and rudeness that made a lot of people hang up on them before they even threw out their sales pitch. How is one to find a good job if most large companies today don’t advertise openly and only do it through these “headhunters” who waste a lot of our time or misrepresent the positions they are advertising?
