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Re:Why everybody’s hiring but nobody’s getting hired by curryst on Thursday September 23, 2021 @06:49PM (#28636550)
> Anecdotally, it seems the only way to get to a human is to have referrals or the perfect resume. Ironically, the internet has made people in my life more reliant on who they know IRL to get a job.

Third-party recruiters will also work, if you get the "headhunter" variety as opposed to the "I've got a 1099 job in Nowhere, Alabama and it pays $3.50 an hour. Interested?" type.

The headhunter recruiters also often have jobs from multiple cool places to work. It's super nice to have one point of contact for 2 or 3 different interview processes. Plus more line-skipping.

As an interviewer, you don't have time to vet the applicants. A recruiter who's going to get paid 20% of that person's salary does.

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Re:Why everybody’s hiring but nobody’s getting hired by Hermitian909 on Friday September 24, 2021 @02:30AM (#28639244)
My experience in software is that finding a good headhunter is as hard, or harder, than finding a good candidate. Most lack the skills to actually make a good assessment and just spam you with resumes. Good headhunters seem to leave the industry or move up to hunting more valuable talent (high six figures and above) after a few years, as far as I can tell.
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