Re: tech writing recruiters

["William Sherman" <bsherman77 -at- embarqmail -dot- com>]

Possibly one misunderstanding here is the type of job itself.  If you are 
looking for direct employment (actual employee of the company with all 
employee benefits), you will find few recruiters. If you are looking for 
contract work, then you find lots of recruiters. Companies frequently get 
hundreds of resumes for any single job, so they don't need to recruit except 
for fresh outs at the college job fair.

If you are seeking contract work, unless you have established your own 
company, you almost always have to go through a recruiter and a job shop 
since laws, policies, and law suits have made it so that companies rarely 
will contract directly with an individual. Contracts often are offered as 3 
months or 6 months but can extend out to a few years. Rarely do they go more 
than a few years.

Recruiters who call with temp to hire jobs are using a carrot. It entices 
you to take a job at a lower rate with the hope of direct employment. 
Usually, the direct employment never occurs.

If you are seeking direct employment, it is best to do your own hunting and 
make your own applications. But if you are not in your 20s recently out of 
school, or some fast rising star in your field, you may find getting direct 
employment a difficult task. If you are in your late 40s or 50s, you had 
better have a couple of patents, a bunch of trade fame, or something that 
someone wants badly. If you are just a regular sort of employee, odds are 
greatly against you getting a direct job at that age.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Caroline Leopold" <caroline -dot- leopold -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "Kari Gulbrandsen" <kkgulbrandsen -at- gmail -dot- com>
Cc: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 12:19 AM
Subject: Re: tech writing recruiters