Ask HN: Why are there still recruiters?

Re:Ask HN: Why are there still recruiters? by javi830810 on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @04:56PM (#16277901)

I agree with the values you mention they are "supposed" to provide. But in reality Filtering, I dont think they do it correctly. At least in Technology.

See technology nowadays it's a lot about buzzwords, and usually recruiters just look for keywords inside resumes. If you dont have one of those keywords, you're off the hook.

Technology hiring, could have another layer of analysis. For example every developer knows that if you've been doing mysql, and php, and web development. You probably can manage a CMS like Drupal or Wordpress. A recruiter would dismiss you for not having one of those in your resume.

Maybe this is good. Maybe not, my point is, job hiring is not only plain resume reading, and they usually dont go beyond that.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are there still recruiters? by seem_2211 on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @07:09PM (#16278731)

That's fair from what I've seen in technical hiring (as mentioned, I only do sales recruitment). A lot of the big outfits hire kids straight out of school who don't understand the difference between C# and Javascript or the difference between front-end or server-side development. A lot of the issues with recruiters stem from the fact that recruiting companies (ironically) don't hire all that well.

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