The IT recruiter is all the same. Add to that s/he works when her family and friends are sleeping and sleeps when they are working only adds to the ‘charm’ of being a recuriter, leave alone the packages and the incentives and the commissions and the flab you collect around your midriff and elsewhere and the medical bills that begin to accumulate over a period of time.

I think what you mentioned are universal, most of them if not all of them.

But it was refreshing to read the blog and all those 18 points.
Yes. We RECRUITERS ARE PEOPLE! and we do need be respected!

As a job candidate in IT who has spent months looking for work, I certainly agree with everything you have stated from your perspective.

But, to be brutally honest, you are an exception to your profession - because most recruiters are lazy far beyond your definition.
They do not know their client, they do not obtain concise and coherent job requirements from their client and they do not know Information Technology!

How can they possibly expect their perfect-fit candidate to get the job? Maybe a miracle is going to happen on the interview?

Wrong.

A misinformed and unprepared candidate will fail every time.

Jason - I call the voice that this is written in my “Grumpy Old Man” voice. I guess I’ll have to do more GOM posts…

Janet - I hadn’t thought about the wider application to commission-oriented folks. Thanks for that!

Ottayan - I don’t know if you are around recruiters much in your daily life, but I guarantee you that this is a rather tamed down version of waht they say in the “back room”.

Dan