SPUG:Open Source Recruiters?

[Creede Lambard]

I had a friend who got onto a temp job with Robert Half, and they and Volt
are the only two agencies that I can really say did anything for me. Hall
Kinion is still around, but they never had much success placing me. I can't
even remember the names of the other agencies I contacted.

As for perm jobs, one of the places Volt placed me at hired me on
permanently, but that only lasted about a year. You probably would do better
to network and do all the "hidden job market" stuff you're supposed to do if
you want to find a permanant job, rather than have a recruiter find one for
you. YMMV of course.

Mostly I use recruiters because I'm willing to let someone else take a cut of
what I could be making in order to place me, rather than to try to market
myself -- something I'm not very good and a job best left to professionals,
IMO.

On Mon, 5 May 2003, Mikel Tidwell wrote:

> Volt was the only recruiter I ever had any success with, and it was with
> Microsoft and perl (MSN) as well.  They never found me a perm position
> though, even when the economy was far better than the last year.
> 
> The job I have now (just over a year) was found on my own.  I gave up on
> recruiting firms and just started doing the hunting directly.  I had a lot
> more positive reactions this way than I ever did with a recruiter.
> 

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