How To Work With A Recruiter

I'm not hot on the way this was written. It's pitched so that candidates think they're benefiting but given a recruiters point of asking questions on their end, makes them more submissive. There are reasons federal law is gravitating so candidates don't have to share salary. One is so recruiters don't low ball us on one more thing outside the sales strategies they already us. Agreed it's a good idea to share salary when the conversation calls for it, but this isn't a black and white thing where you automatically do it. The hypocrisy on number three is that you may not want us to say yes to everything but you do say yes to everything. And that is annoying as f*ck when we're talking about where we will spend thousands of hours over the next year or two. There are definitely good recruiters out there and they have positions to fill because they have established relationships. But a lot of them will ask #4 so they can get off the phone with you and try to contact that companies hiring manager and get a position they can fill a candidate with. Candidates can do themselves justice by being aware and staying positive while they work a numbers game on applications sent out for themselves. Become a recruiter's yes in attitude (not necessarily in answers) when you're dealing with recruiters. They should decide what they want not what someone else thinks they should want. Recruiter's are sales people, so find a good one.

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