My pet peeve is people mailing me with entirely inappropriate positions (usually junior or incorrect location) and following up with "if you know anyone appropriate pass on their details".  I have my own very busy job, I'm not about to do yours for you - the fact that the job isn't a fit for me implies all you wanted to do was use my network.

I have been known to pass on positions to friends if they look good, but if you mailed me pretty much demanding I do this, I will not.  Even if you offer some sort of incentive I'm not keen - by the way, a fiver of iTunes voucher is NOT an incentive to do your job for you.

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On 15 March 2016 at 14:04, Abraham Marín Pérez <[address removed]> wrote:

Hi Maggie, Byron,

I think a lot can (and probably will) be said on this, but the one thing I'd like to point out is don't throw out buzzwords in the hope these will catch the candidate's eye. This is something that so many recruiters do, often not realising that by putting together unrelated buzzwords they're demonstrating that they don't really understand the domain, which is rather off-putting. Now, if you're working with Barry chances are you're not going to do this anyway, because knowing Barry that's not the way RecWorks operate, but still I wanted to get that out of my system :)

As per the Do's, I guess simply demonstrate that you're worried about the candidate's career, not just about filling a vacancy and getting a fee.

My two cents :)

Abraham

[masked]:46 GMT+00:00 Maggie Cranford <[address removed]>:

Hi guys, 

I’m writing today with a message from one of my RecWorks colleagues, Bryon, 

"Barry suggested writing to you to get your thoughts and advice on something. My name is Byron Donovan, I am the newest recruiter of the RecWorks team. I am quickly learning and understanding Java from some of the seniors here but I’d love to get some advice from Java developers in the industry on what to do and not to do as a new recruiter entering the tech industry. The guys at RecWorks have told me that typically recruiters have a bad reputation, so I’m keen to understand what I can do to make sure I can do things well. 

If any of you have any advice please contact me directly or just reply to the group. I’ll be along to a few LJC events soon so if you see me please come and say hi!

Thanks,

Byron”

As Byron says, he’d be happy to receive feedback via the list - or feel free to send comments off-list using my email as I’ll be happy to relay them to Byron.

Many thanks!

Maggie

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