[melbourne-pug] Any value in recruiters job posts?

Wed Jul 6 23:08:14 EDT 2016

Hi! As an independent Tech Agent in Melbourne, I have helped many Python Devs land better gigs in both contract and permanent capacities. It is a shame to hear horror stories from people like you but the reality is that you don’t have to dig too deep to hear them! If an agency recruiter simply advertises online and filters responses then I can see how that adds little value. 

If the typical agency experience wasn’t so “hit and miss” then company bosses would love to outsource the headache of hiring. And, people at the “thinking stage” of changing jobs would happily benefit from the contacts and competencies of a discreet and resourceful Tech Agent. I’ve recently started a company from Melbourne, designed to combat the norm and solve the disconnect between conventional recruitment agencies, and well... everyone else. Check out www.saltworth.com.au

In short, I think there will always be the big recruitment firms servicing large corporate blue chip accounts. In the fullness of time I see a change in the industry where the raft of medium-sized recruitment agencies will dwindle and more independent Tech Agents will emerge who actively manage and promote sought-after SW Engineers properly. After all, if you can open up custom opportunities for people and offer firms potential hires on an exclusive basis, then that’s got to be a service worth paying for – especially if the fees are around 10% or less. 

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From: melbourne-pug [mailto:melbourne-pug-bounces+john.knight=tequity.com.au at python.org] On Behalf Of Sebastian Pawlus
Sent: Wednesday, 6 July 2016 7:13 PM
To: Melbourne Python Users Group <melbourne-pug at python.org>
Subject: Re: [melbourne-pug] Any value in recruiters job posts?

Much thanks you all for the input here. 

It looks like the pain with recruiters is shared across the glob on the similar level. I will make a test run and try to filter recruiters out and see how much is left of it. Maybe not all companies trusted them. 

Also after reading the input I should rephrase the question to "Would you apply for the job from recruiters add?" 

Also apologies for the latency to AU, I will try to fix that soon. 

Thanks again. 

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 6:00 AM, Anthony Briggs <anthony.briggs at gmail.com <mailto:anthony.briggs at gmail.com> > wrote:

Hi Sebastian,

My personal experience is that recruiters don't provide much, if any, value.

The only job that I've sourced through a recruiter was a terrible, terrible PHP job that I quit after a week. I did have several interviews at around the same time, but a) you need to be head and shoulders above the competition for them to consider you, given recruiter's fees (~20% of the annual salary IIRC), and b) if you are head and shoulders above, then you'll be getting cold calls from various companies anyway and/or will be a relative shoe-in at most interviews.

I've managed to get off most recruiter books after several years of working on my own stuff, but I used to get a raft of calls from them whenever a senior Python position came up. At one place I worked, it became a game to try and figure out the originating company given a particularly lazy cut+paste position from Seek or wherever.

There may be some companies that work solely through a recruiter, but good luck filtering those out from the spam.

Hope that helps,

Anthony

On 6 July 2016 at 13:08, Kiran Busi <kiran.busi at gmail.com <mailto:kiran.busi at gmail.com> > wrote:

If the job is is specific to a real role, not generic information farming, then I see it having some value.  

That said, I much prefer dealing with companies directly vs a recruiter. 

On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 9:34 PM, Sebastian Pawluś <sebastian.pawlus at gmail.com <mailto:sebastian.pawlus at gmail.com> > wrote:

Hey, 

This might be odd question to ask here, since the list about Python and should probably stay as one. But living in Europe I don't know anyone from this part of the world and as Python programmer myself I know how Python community is a friendly entity ;) 

Anyway, the real thing is. 

A while ago I created an aggregator for jobs (like all it jobs). It's called https://whoishiring.io, then short after a person on the twitter suggested that I should add www.seek.com.au <http://www.seek.com.au>  as a source, and I did just that. 

But then I've found out that a lot (a lot <https://whoishiring.io/search/-32.491/147.437/3/?order=distance> ) of this jobs are from recruiters companies. I even created a blacklist <https://gist.github.com/xando/6e3a4de512f45259667833cfbb09420f>  and planning to filter against it and exclude those jobs from listing. I don't like them, the website was created to increase visibility of job posts, by covering real company name with theirs they secretly not helping, and the list of problems with it recruiters is longer.

The real question is should I do it. Should I filter recruiters out from this part of the world? Do you guys see any values in those jobs posts, are recruiters as bad and annoying as here? 

Again if this not something that should go on the list, apologies. But still I would like to know the your opinion so private emails welcome. 

Best,

Sebastian Pawluś.

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