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Recruiters

All things recruiters – for and from job seekers.

Hiring Ghosted

Why Hiring Stalls And Recruiters Don’t Communicate With You

June 27, 2021April 30, 2021 by Jason Alba

About a month ago I was asked by the CEO of a company I work with to find a front end developer. That is someone who specializes in making a …

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Categories Job Seeker Advocates, Joe Job Seeker, Recruiters

A Recruiter Is a Broker Not an Agent

February 26, 2021 by Jason Alba

I searched “broker” on google and got this (supposedly from wikipedia and LinkedIn): A broker is a person or firm who arranges transactions between a buyer and a seller for …

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Categories Joe Job Seeker, Recruiters

Understanding Headhunter Ethics #AskTheHeadhunter

August 20, 2019 by Jason Alba

When I was in my 2006 job search I thought that recruiters, headhunters, etc. would be my best friends. I thought I would get on their radar, they would be …

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Categories Job Seeker Advocates, Recruiters

When you rely on recruiters for your next job…

February 4, 2019 by Jason Alba

You are setting yourself up for a longer, depressing, hard job search. This is absolutely not bashing on recruiters. Ask many of them and they’ll tell you the same thing. …

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Categories Job Search Strategies, Joe Job Seeker, Recruiters

Job Search and Recruiter Scams: YUCK!

November 8, 2017 by Jason Alba

It’s hard enough being a job seeker without having to deal with this junk. Nick Corcodilos calls out a certain scam in this post: Job applications are the biggest recruiting …

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Categories Joe Job Seeker, Recruiters

Open Letter to Job Seekers from a Recruiter (my response)

August 21, 2017 by Jason Alba

Last week I read Mary Faulkner’s post, An Open Letter to Job Seekers. I thought it was going to be a scathing response telling job seekers to not whine so …

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Categories Joe Job Seeker, Recruiters

Why Recruiters Don’t Call Back

July 14, 2016 by Jason Alba

“Network with recruiters,” they said. I did. About 30 of them. It was an exercise in ME reaching out to THEM and rarely hearing anything back from them. I didn’t …

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Categories Job Seeker Advocates, Joe Job Seeker, Recruiters 2 Comments

How to make job postings 1,000 times more valuable

September 25, 2015 by Jason Alba

I don’t know when this changed, but when it did, it made a job posting lose most of it’s value: Compensation: Commensurate with experience Are you kidding? Based on the …

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Categories Joe Job Seeker, Recruiters

The Resume Black Hole: Disappointing Proof from CareerXroads

June 26, 2015 by Jason Alba

In a Wall Street Journal blog post (For Job Seekers, the Black Hole Persists), there’s disappointing and perhaps disgusting proof that the resume black hole is there.  Like anyone in …

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Categories Job Search Strategies, Job Search Technology, Joe Job Seeker, Recruiters, resume help, resume writers

6 Secrets of The New Interview + JibberJobber and Job Search Organizing

June 22, 2015 by Jason Alba

Nick Corcodilos, Ask the Headhunter, shared 6 Secrets of the New Interview from his book, The New Interview (an instruction book), on this blog post. Here are his six, with …

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Categories job search interviews, Job Search Strategies, Job Search Technology, Job Search Tools, Joe Job Seeker, Recruiters
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