[nylug-talk] Job Recruiters

[Ruben Safir]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 07:45:11PM -0500, Ron Guerin wrote:
> Rajesh Menon wrote:
> 
> > If it's indeed an employee's market, then let's favour ads which come 
> > straight from the company over the ones from a recruitment firm (they 
> > post everywhere anyway.)
> > 
> > Maybe we could have the recruiters from a recruitment firm post their 
> > ads on a different list (say, nylug-recruitmenters? :P), and allow the 
> > legitimate ones to post to nylug-jobs.
> 
> The issue with both these ideas is that we get relatively few direct
> postings, yet I get enough feedback to know that at least some people
> are getting hired from the recruiter jobs.  It is possible to create
> some kind of favorable treatment for the self-posted jobs on the web
> site, but it's hard to do it in the e-mails.
> 
> I also don't want to accept recruiter jobs but be hostile to them at the
> same time.  If we're going to deal with them, I'd like to have them
> still come by when they don't have to work so hard placing people.

Pick a few based on merit.  Let them pay for something that NYLUG wants.

Ruben


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