Re:What technical recruiters want from engineering candidates
by whack on Monday May 14, 2018 @09:48PM
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Probably because recruiting is a crapshoot numbers game. Emailing massive numbers of people is easy. They have pre-written templates, so the marginal time spent is minimal. Forwarding resumes along is easy as heck too. But customizing someone's entire resume? That doesn't scale. They would have to... you know... actually value you.
Re:What technical recruiters want from engineering candidates
by teachrdan on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @07:52PM
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Because you're not compliant, and a compliant candidate is easier for them to place. If you won't reformat your resume to look like pretty much everyone else's, how can they count on you to take a bunch of pointless phone calls for positions that may only vaguely match your skillset in the hopes that one is a match and they get their blood money?
We always do the same dance: First they ask me for my most recent updated resume. I send it to them. It's a text file. No fancy formatting, no fonts, not even any Unicode, just ASCII. They always ask me to reformat it, and they always send me the same example resume, and they always explain to me very nicely that they want my resume to make a good impression.
I never do it.
Mostly because I'm lazy, but also because I don't care. That resume gets me jobs. I've never posted it to Craigslist and not gotten responses and a job.
Sometimes they nag me once or twice and sometimes I just don't hear back from them.
Now the thing that puzzles me about this the most is, why, for goodness' sake, don't they have somebody on staff to do the reformatting for me? My hourly rate is not low, y'know? I know they have an office full of people 'cause I've been there. If it's such a crucial step, why not provide it as a value-add service?
Oh well. Not really my problem. Just a weird recruiter thought I wanted to share. :-)