Originally posted by sasguru
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All those headhunter threads (well some of them)
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostI was sorely tempted to halve my income with those ego boosting words.
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Originally posted by Churchill View PostReally? As an aside, there's no such word as "gullable" in the OE Dictionary.
Edit: Despite your later attempt!Comment
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostI was sorely tempted to halve my income with those ego boosting words.
"Hello Mr Dim Prawn, I'm a headhunter who would like to prize you from you highly paid perm position. I came across you posting on ContractorUK and in our opinion you are well overpaid and your present employer would like you to bugger off elsewhere at half the money. Hello? Hello????"What happens in General, stays in General.You know what they say about assumptions!Comment
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Why are there so meany headhunted doubters?
Because it doesn't really happen in the techie world.Hard Brexit now!
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostHow quaint. £50K? Do people actually work for that sort of money?
Per quarter!What happens in General, stays in General.You know what they say about assumptions!Comment
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Originally posted by TheBigYinJames View PostWhen an agent phones you up and asks if you'll consider leaving your current gig, this is not headhunting. You have not been headhunted.
Headhunting is conducted in order to find a short list of the best/most suitable people within an entire skills market. To headhunt you need to find every candidate and then establish the best/most suitable and then approach them directly.
Getting a phone call out of the blue as a referral from someone else does not mean you have been headhunted, nor does it mean that you are particularly special.Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyoneComment
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostYou are quite right.
Headhunting is conducted in order to find a short list of the best/most suitable people within an entire skills market. To headhunt you need to find every candidate and then establish the best/most suitable and then approach them directly.
.Hard Brexit now!
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostThey called me up, knew all about me, and asked me if I'd like a £50K a year permie job.
All very well, but I was earning a lot more than that at the time.
When I left my last permie management job, I was sought out for a CIO job with one of the oil companies. Not the CIO, but CIO of some section of it.
But mostly it's done to make either you feel special, or the agent. (I.e. I'm not an agent, I'm a headhunter! )Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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