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DaveMcM

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I just want to make one comment, which is that take care with what settings you use. A lot of these services filter out people with older graduation dates once they apply from ever coming to your view, which ends up excluding a lot of very qualified people who are looking for jobs, so see if you can get around that.

 

 

 

That is all. Best of luck!

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Be on the other side of this many times a lot of people get dropped by these headhunter firms because they all about placing people quickly, collecting their money and on to the next job to fill. Being on the other side if I didn't accept the first job they offered they would get upset and my phone would stop calling me. Talking to others that was common.
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Sounds like there are different recruiter business models. My friend's brother founded a tech headhunter business. It has expanded to multiple states in the US. The friend works for his brother. They get a cut of the wage for every person they place. It is ongoing, how long IDK, but he talks of all the money they make from multiple people having been placed previously. With these placed workers adding up it amounts to substantial return on their investment of time and effort.

 

Many of these people work as contractors and have an ongoing need to be shopped around so they have something lined up after the end of the current contract. Others just want to make the most of their skills and are always looking for opportunities. Some of these code people are used to making relatively large amounts hourly and do not accept that the market fluctuates. Some do. In either case some choose not to work at all rather than work for less.

 

It isn't limited to coders. They place all sorts of positions from executive to grunt level. He is always "On" ready to hand over a business card wherever he goes. Sometimes it is almost effortless making a call and matching people to positions. Other times it takes more effort selling the idea to the "talent." He has to be optimistic and see potential in everything. The recruiter would have to have a very long and ever-increasing list of available contractors if they only went to them a couple of times then removed them from the list because they did not accept one of the first few offers presented to them. That person may say no but they say yes as well. You have nothing if you have no one to offer a position to.

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