Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?

Re:Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck ... by scarface_74 on Friday July 28, 2023 @07:11AM (#36905248)

I was briefly a dev lead responsible for hiring contractors. The company I worked for already had a contract with a certain recruiting agency - the same one I came in through.

The brief stint I was at the company, the recruiter gave me tickets to the local professional baseball team that included access to premium suites and tickets to the local professional football team.

But yeah I get it, having a free meal wouldn’t mean much to me.

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Re:Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck ... by xmcqdpt2 on Friday July 28, 2023 @07:23AM (#36905340)

I work in finance and we have lots of mandatory training about to do about "gifts". Game tickets are a specific example used to illustrate corporate corruption...

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Re:Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck ... by scarface_74 on Friday July 28, 2023 @07:46AM (#36905502)

The company I worked for already had an exclusive contract with the recruiting agency.

We weren’t going to hire contractors outside of that agency.

Heck, my manager asked me did I know someone with the same skillset I had, I had a friend who was looking for work and asked for a rate of $80/hour. They wouldn’t hire them directly. I had to negotiate with the recruiter and my manager until we also settled on paying the agency $120/hour to hire my friend so he could get $80.

No my manager also wasn’t responsible for choosing the agency. That was chosen on higher levels.

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Re:Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck ... by heavenlyblue on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @04:57PM (#36977301)

I think you are completely missing the point where this can be interpreted as they giving you a kickback in order to keep the exclusive contract going

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