Oh, Tinder starts with a capital T as it is a proper noun huh? Darn, makes my opening joke a lot less impactful…
This is [someone] from [Recruiting Firm] HR team. We are hiring for job opportunity for .NET profile.
I just came across your profile through linked in and found it’s interesting for the position we are hiring . Please let me know if you are looking for the job change . Request you to share me your updated resume and best time to reach you. Also let me know what type of opportunity you are seeking so that I can come up again with your expectation position.
Looking forward to hear from you.
An e-mail I got the other day
So, my day job is that I’m a software developer and I’ve done it enough at many different corporations that I tend to get a decent amount of hits on LinkedIn. So I’m not surprised when I get e-mails like this, and tend to ignore them.
I’ve answered e-mails like this before and gone through the interview process for some of these, and they play out like a Tinder date. If anything goes wrong, they ghost you faster than Casper ever can. Sure, it sounds easy to just ignore any e-mail from any IT recruiting agency but they’re necessary to find leads on good jobs and can help you market yourself if you’re in need of that.
The best ones (I recommend TEKSystems from experience) like to build a rapport with you and meet with you in person before recommending you to any prospective employer. The ones to avoid are the ones who set up interviews without meeting you in my experience, and won’t really talk about what the job will entail to any degree or list every technology under the sun. Some jobs are secretive at times (mostly due to being for the military or government) and will have indications of such.
If they work with me for free, well how do they make money then? Glad you asked that question! They usually get a placement fee if you get hired or a portion of your salary for the first year. It’s like having a Hollywood agent, but for jobs where you’re paid to hate computers for others! Naturally, with the IT boom in recent years everyone and their brothers are jumping into this pool of potential profits which leads to the e-mails I get to quote in this post!
I hope this message finds you well! Right now I`m helping famous Transportation and Logistics Company to find Senior Software developer with strong skills in Java, J2EE, Angular onsite in SeaTac, WA.
Are you available sometime this week for a quick call to discuss?
Another e-mail I’m choosing to ignore
Assuming I want to relocate across the country huh? Assuming I would love Seattle huh? Succinct with bad grammar huh? This is another example of a recruiter to avoid. They obviously don’t care about whether I would want to move clear across the company and that I maybe wouldn’t want to work for “famous Transportation and Logistics Company” (*cough* Amazon *cough*). They just want their recruitment bonus (that’s why they work with you for no financial cost, by the way) and how I feel be damned.
I’ve had to deal with recruiters like this before. The interview doesn’t work out and they disappear quicker than someone unmatching you on Tinder. It’s also worse feeling in my opinion (and experience). Oftentimes with a job interview you’re hoping that you land the job as to earn a living for you and possibly for your family with other options hard to come by, and with Tinder it ranges from a …well, it’s Tinder… to a relationship and if it fails there’s other options.
In the end, recruiters can be good or bad. Many are good, but many are bad with a lot of the bad ones trying to get me to work at First Data. Never cared to get a job just to be unemployed in six months because someone wanted to have a killer bonus. Tangents aside, remember the ones who want to see you succeed and ignore the ones who try to boost your ego or prey on your desire to do great things.
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