- Recruiter phones you about a position that matches your skill well.
- Recruiter decides you are not suitable, or recruiter submits your CV, and HR decides you are not suitable.
- You guess who the client is, and contact some leading technical people there.
- They quickly recognize your skills, interview you, and hire you. In fact they are relieved to finally get somebody competent after having been passed so many cheap and useless candidates by HR and the recruiters.
This has happened to me several times, including this week. Whenever I am confronted with this scenario, my first ideas are (1) that the client is screwing the recruiter and cutting them out of the payment loop, or else (2) that the client is just contacting me via the recruiter initially to try and beat down my rate. But "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." The simplest explanation is (3) that HR and recruiters simply don't know how to hire engineers.
Imagine a real-estate salesman is asked to go into a hospital and decide on the best of four heart surgeons. It's ridiculous. Most likely he will just pick the personality most similar to himself, the biggest blagger.
The general point that comes out is: Non-professionals should never be in charge of evaluating professionals. I think the legal profession has actually codified this principle somewhere. Information Technology has a lot of catching-up to do.
P.S. boomed
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