{"id":2604,"date":"2017-06-16T19:39:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T02:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2017-06-16T19:39:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T02:39:06","slug":"why-i-dislike-recruiting-firms-one-more-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2604","title":{"rendered":"Why I Dislike Recruiting Firms (One More Example)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I see a job listing. It&#8217;s obviously posted by a recruiting firm, but it&#8217;s a distinctly better than average match, and I haven&#8217;t sent anything to such people on a long time, so I decide to give it a try.<\/p>\n<p>It almost immediately prompts a callback. There&#8217;s just something sleazy about the level of eagerness in the guy&#8217;s voice, and how it&#8217;s hard to get a word in edgewise. Finally he calms down enough to where I can ask a few questions.<\/p>\n<p>At that point, it becomes clear that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No such job actually exists; he just crafted the job description to prompt responses and pad his list of existing contacts (he even admits as such), and<\/li>\n<li>Most of his clients are in Bellevue, despite his listing the job as being in &#8220;Seattle.&#8221; Bellevue is an unacceptably long commute for me, so I deliberately ask Indeed to search for jobs &#8220;only in&#8221; Seattle proper.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> why I have such a dim view of recruiting and consulting agencies, and as such generally shun them. They misrepresent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I see a job listing. It&#8217;s obviously posted by a recruiting firm, but it&#8217;s a distinctly better than average match, and I haven&#8217;t sent anything to such people on a long time, so I decide to give it a try. It almost immediately prompts a callback. There&#8217;s just something sleazy about the level of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job-hunting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}