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Clueless Recruiters, Issue #3
• January 12, 2012 • Clueless Recruiters • No comments
How to prove that you are quite possibly the worst scum of the universe — all in this week’s issue of Clueless Recruiters. (Cue theme music!) There are few things that technical people are more annoyed by than technical recruiters. A very large segment of the technical recruiting industry has made a bad name for [...]
Clueless Recruiters, Issue #2
• November 14, 2011 • Clueless Recruiters • No comments
A web designer, online portfolio, XHTML, HTML 5, CSS 3, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Office, ASP, JavaScript and SQL Server — all in this week’s issue of Clueless Recruiters. (Cue theme music!) There are few things that technical people are more annoyed by than technical recruiters. A very large segment of the technical recruiting industry has [...]
How to make technical professionals not hate your guts: A guide for technical recruiters
• November 5, 2011 • Clueless Recruiters • 4 comments
I’ve been accused of not knowing how to do a Technical Recruiter’s job, so I have no business telling them how to do it. That’s a fair assertion. What I do know, however, are all of the things that Technical Recruiters do that drive me absolutely crazy. Not all recruiters do these things so I [...]
Clueless Recruiters
• October 26, 2011 • Clueless Recruiters • 5 comments
Inspired by Daring Fireball’s Jackass of the Week columns, I’ve decided to do something similar for clueless technical recruiters who contact me for jobs that are clearly a terrible fit. There are few things that technical people are more annoyed by than technical recruiters. A very large segment of the technical recruiting industry has made [...]
Death to Recruiters
• April 1, 2011 • Clueless Recruiters • 12 comments
Dear technical recruiters: We all hate you. As far as I can tell, the entire technical recruiting community is just a bunch of mindless spammers — and I have the proof. This is what I have posted on my LinkedIn page: Recruiters: Don’t contact me. Don’t contact me. Don’t contact me. Don’t contact me. Don’t [...]
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