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Re:Lessons learned as a recruiter hiring developers the last... by diskevich on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @08:16PM (#40373889)
Another funny (or sad) thing - getting messages from recruiters with job recs saying you should have at least 5 years experience in Swift/React/whatever when the technology was just coming out.
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Re:Lessons learned as a recruiter hiring developers the last... by hi-v-rocknroll on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @08:21PM (#40373921)
I'm laughing out loud.

I should send out fictional resumes for social research of the form:

Senior full-stack engineer with 25 years of solid experience in React, Elixir, and Rust running production stacks in the real world.

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Re:Lessons learned as a recruiter hiring developers the last... by diskevich on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @08:29PM (#40373979)
You will not be the only one using this approach, haha.

Check this out - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29052903

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Re:Lessons learned as a recruiter hiring developers the last... by hi-v-rocknroll on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @09:04PM (#40374176)
LinkedIn jumped the shark for me when everyone I met randomly was 2nd-3rd degree while the rare exception was someone who wasn't in those circles.

0. Never, ever add a recruiter as a LI connection.

1. Creating a list of people you used to know or places that no longer exist makes no sense at all. Even reggae gets it: https://genius.com/Desmond-dekker-fu-man-chu-lyrics

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