{"id":5071,"date":"2020-11-12T08:44:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T14:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/?p=5071"},"modified":"2020-11-12T08:44:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T14:44:28","slug":"technical-recruiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interestingauthors.com\/blog\/technology\/technical-recruiting\/","title":{"rendered":"So You Are Thinking About Becoming a Technical Recruiter?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve written essays about this over the years. As a contractor I get to hear from the great unqualified masses on a regular basis. I have a really great essay about the changing game of consulting and technical recruiting in my new book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just yesterday I wrote another really good one<\/a> because a pimp pissed me off and then had an email system that didn’t allow any in-bound email. Seems a lot of people who currently are technical recruiters are sharing the link. It definitely more than quadrupled my normal traffic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That got me to thinking. Why not nip this problem in the bud? Generally people have advanced degrees in basket weaving, 17th century Russian literature, or some other “highly employable” college degree when they become technical recruiters. Many pimps allow recruiters to work from home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly, very few of them actually work at recruiting. They get on a few vendor management lists. Cut and paste a few openings. Once they have 3-5 people out billing (if they ever achieve that) they just stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I have been encountering post-COVID-19 are quite a few English-Lit and other “writing” type majors taking jobs as technical recruiters for many of the same reasons. They get to work from home and believe they can coast through it once they get some terribly low number of consultants out billing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That really good post I link too explains why you can’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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