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Hybrid (work from home + office) Job Hiring: Tech Recruiter - GoTeam Philippines

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We are looking for a Tech Recruiter who can review employment applications and background-check reports. Earn up to 30K monthly and enjoy plenty of benefits when you join GoTeam!

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[agotterer]

How to be a successful tech recruiter: read the resume and proofread

In a given day I receive at least one recruitment email. Sometimes more, lots more. I'm generally very cordial to recruiters. I know they are just doing there job. Usually I'll be pleasant and write back a short note telling them that I'm not considering new opportunities. I honestly believe that you never know when your paths might cross. Also this sometimes limits the number of follow up messages.

But every once in a while I'll receive a message that does't respect me or my time. If your job as a recruiter is to find talent and get them excited about jumping ship to a "better" opportunity, you can't be sending out messages like this:

Adam,  Your background looks great and I Have an Awesome Linux Infrastructure Engineer role Mid level 90-140k plus great bonus up to 60% wanted to see if you or any of your friends would be intrested, This is a Great laid back cutting edge environment. Hours 8:30-5:30pm. Great Benefits and perks.. Top Buy & Sell side Financial Services Firm on Park Ave, Your search is confidential. If interested or you know a friend you can send updated word resume and exact comp asap to: [email protected] Interviews are immediate, 

I have quite a number of problems with this message. Let's review:

"I Have an Awesome Linux Infrastructure Engineer role Mid level" - To start, besides a footnote or two mentioning Linux usage. I've never worked as a systems engineer. Second, i'd say my most recent experience has been at a fairly senior level.  Not entirely sure why you'd think I would want a mid level position after last being a manager? These things would be obvious if you read my resume. I'm just going to assume that a few keywords matched and he sent me this canned message. I guess spray-and-pray is a legit business model.

I don't claim to be an English major or have the greatest grammar and spelling. But my god the whole message has horrible grammar, spelling errors, weird capitalization and comma usage throughout. This is a horrible first impression. A horrible first impression for you personally, for the company you're representing as well as the recruiting firm you work for. This is also a sign of what it would be like to have to interact with you.

"Top Buy & Sell side Financial Services Firm" - Not a single thing on my resume says I would be a good fit at a Financial services firm. I've never worked in finance. Actually most of my resume is consumer web, media and commerce.

"90-140k plus great bonus up to 60%" - Seems like a nice salary for mid level. But that range is all over the place. $140K seems pretty senior to me. But it's nice that you show a range at all.

Last but not least. And this is an offense for almost all recruiting attempts. There is no mention of the company name! No good software engineer (or systems engineer) is going to be so excited by a generic / poorly written / butchered description that they MUST email you back to find out more. No one cares that its a top mobile social geo enabled consumer facing app that just closed another round. We want to know what company it's for. Plain and simple.

What's the takeaway here? If you want to be a successful tech recruiter, start with reading the resume and proofreading your email.