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by bmk44
1953 days ago
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While I agree with the article's main takeaway that you need to have a good relationship and work together with recruiter, I mostly disagree with the negative scaremongering about sharing your resume. Every single recruiter I have ever shared my resume in order to apply for a particular role explicitly asked me to confirm a "right to represent" statement and only then would they share my profile with a target company. In my most recent job search as a senior front-end developer, I turned my LinkedIn profile to be "seeking work - visible only to recruiters" and I corresponded with over 300 recruiters over the course of 4 months. My initial reply message to every recruiter who contacted me included a greeting, my salary expectations, my phone number, and my schedule during which I am free to chat, as well as a copy of my resume. They all appreciated that I laid my cards on the table since it eliminated 15-30 minutes of pointless back and forth required for them to get this information from me, and they could also cut the conversation short immediately if whatever role they represented wasn't a good match.
This kind of job search process took relatively long but ultimately, with little effort, I was able to land a gig that's a perfect fit at the top range of my salary expectations. Pro-tip: create a dedicated email address for the purpose of your job search and NEVER include your primary phone number on a resume which you share with recruiters or portals such as dice.com. |
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So far as you know. I once had a great conversation with a recruiter where they were pairing up myself and a former co-worker to join the team of a 2nd former co-worker for a year-long contract. It was just about a slam dunk deal, and everyone involved wanted to move forward with it... until HR informed us that our resumes had been submitted without our knowledge or permission (from old resumes they found online), but we were in their system already and could not be brought in by our recruiter. Nor could we get the first recruiter to work with us as the 2nd recruiter had the contract to fill the roles.
In the grand scheme of things, we just moved on to other jobs, but there are definitely cases where the systems in place, and bad actors, throw wrenches into the works no matter what you do.