Comments | isomeme: "Doesn't know the territory"

isomeme

"Doesn't know the territory"

Jun 28, 2007 13:41

At my job, I get cold calls from technical recruiters about once a day. We don't use outside recruiters at the moment, and I always make this clear immediately. Some then get rude or pushy, giving me an excellent excuse to hang up on them quickly. Others are polite and friendly, and start angling for future business. I'm willing to talk for a ( Read more... )

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maeghanne June 28 2007, 21:49:01 UTC

"DOESNT KNOW THE TERRITORY??"

hehe. love that one!

christeos_pir June 28 2007, 21:53:09 UTC

That sounds like C, which rhymes with P, and that means pool!

maeghanne June 28 2007, 21:59:02 UTC

HAHAHA! ROXOR!

You watch your phraseology!

isomeme June 28 2007, 22:48:33 UTC

Hee! I was wondering if anyone would get my title reference. :)

fraterseraphino June 29 2007, 05:25:31 UTC

I suppose answering the question "well, it's more of a derivative of an earlier language called Oak, which itself was an attempt to fuse some aspects of LISP into C++, but with the regularization of inheritance similar to the Modula-3 language, which itself was inspired by Pascal" would probably just not work well with a headhunter.

now you're talking krishnahermes June 29 2007, 06:01:21 UTC

Well, hopefully she's not driving the car and using the cell phone, she might nod off at 'Modula-3 language' and crash into the guard rail.

geoffcapp June 29 2007, 21:53:26 UTC

Just curious, since I work for a boutique tech-recruiting firm.

You don't use outside recruiters because:

A) You don't have any hard-to-fill positions
B) Your HR department is filled with rock-star recruiters
C) "It's just policy"
D) Other (please specify)

isomeme July 1 2007, 16:25:00 UTC

(D) We're a very small company, so we don't have an HR department that does recruiting. We (the managers) recruit for our own open positions, and for each others' if we see someone promising. And we do it using our networks through local tech groups, past jobs, and so forth, supplemented by e.g. Craigslist.

When we can't find the right person that way, we've gone to recruiters now and then in the past, but usually we've had pretty good success on the DIY route.

And now for something completly different. siel July 1 2007, 16:09:16 UTC

.. and also a little random.

Was wondering if you were involved with the IT Guild? Partially given your Order work with the website and part from our last conversation at Notocon.

If so could you drop me an offline note to raven (at) jestyr (dot) com

Thanks Bro.