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  18     <title>What are the essential duties for a technical recruiter? - General</title>
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  53                                             <abbr class="published" title="2017-07-10T09:39:43-08:00">July 10, 2017  9:39 AM</abbr>
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  63                                         <p>I think it's odd that most recruiters do not seem to know what they essential
  64 duties are. Just looking at it quickly one would think that a recruiter's job
  65 is to find <strong>qualified</strong> candidates. In the field of computers
  66 this often means looking at buzzwords and matching them up. But it's more than
  67 buzzword matching (http://jobscan.co can do that for you). It's really knowing
  68 the technologies behind the buzzwords to know that, for example, <a
  69 href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkins_(software)">Jenkins</a> is
  70 essentially the same as <a
  71 href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Cloud">Electric Commander</a>
  72 whereas <a href="https://www.mysql.com/">MySQL</a> is not really at all like
  73 <a href="https://www.mongodb.com/">MongoDB</a> though they do share the characteristic of both being databases,
  74 one uses SQL and the other is No SQL.</p>
  75
  76 <p>I get way too many "offers" by recruiters - typically Indian recruiters -
  77 for positions that I would have thought I was not qualified for. For example,
  78 the client will say that 3+ years experience with AWS is <strong>required</strong>
  79 and I do not have any AWS experience yet (I've played around with it at home
  80 and have taken some online courses but it's clear the client wants 3+ years
  81 of actual experience not classroom experience). But the recruiter will
  82 contact me nonetheless. Or a recruiter will approach me for a Salesforce
  83 developer job. The word Salesforce appeared on my resume once. I helped the
  84 Salesforce team integrate into JIRA via a plugin. I configured the plugin and
  85 verified that Salesforce was talking to JIRA. I did absolutely nothing in
  86 Salesforce itself. I would think that a Salesforce developer would know
  87 Salesforce in depth. This is a waste of my time and their time and really
  88 a waste of the client's time.</p>
  89
  90 <p>I realize that the recruiter may be thinking "Hey, I'm not sure that this
  91 particular guy is totally qualified but I do see Salesforce on his resume.
  92 I'll reach out to him and ask questions". Then I would think he email, rather
  93 than being just a form email, would be something like this:</p>
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  95 <blockquote>
  96 Hi, my name is &lt;name&gt;. I saw your resume says you've had some Salesforce
  97 exposure but it's not clear to me how much experience you actually have. I have
  98 a Salesforce developer position described below. Can you tell me if you have
  99 enough experience and if you are comfortable with the job requirements?...
 100 </blockquote>
 101
 102 <p>But they don't do that.</p>
 103
 104 <p>I have toyed with the idea of faking experience so as to compel the
 105 recruiter to get me an interview and then go in there and simply say
 106 "I don't know any of that stuff and I don't know what Mr. Recruiter said I
 107 did" just to discredit the recruiter to show their clients that this
 108 particular recruiter is not properly screening (or screening at all for that
 109 matter). Something needs to be done, IMHO!</p>
 110
 111 <p>Case in point: Working with one <a
 112 href="mailto:arvind.alagapalli@araucariatechnologies.com">Arvind Kumar</a>
 113 of <a href="http://araucariatechnologies.com">Araucaria Technologies</a>,
 114 he approached me for an AWS Cloud Engineer position that has the following:</p>
 115
 116 <blockquote>
 117 <h2>Qualifications:</h2>
 118
 119 <ul>
 120   <li>5+ years of progressive experience with large, complex information systems</li>
 121   <li>3+ years of experience provisioning, operating, and managing AWS 3+ environments</li>
 122   <li>Vast experience with transitioning physical plant to AWS environments</li>
 123   <li>Must have strong LAMP & Tomcat Java experience.</li>
 124   <li>Experience in automation and testing via scripting/programming.</li>
 125   <li>Strong experience with Ansible. Experience with SVN and Github (preferred)</li>
 126   <li>B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent (preferred)</li>
 127 </ul>
 128 </blockquote>
 129
 130 <p>Yet nowhere on my <a href="http://clearscm.com/resume">resume</a> would
 131 you find 3_ years of AWS experience, nor transitioning physical plant to AWS environment. Have no experience with
 132 Ansible, nor SVN or Github. This is not to say I couldn't excel at these
 133 technologies as I pick up things quickly. And I do have experience with
 134 things like Clearcase, Perforce and git (just not Github or SVN). And I have
 135 taken some AWS courses but I would not claim to have 3+ years of experience
 136 or even 1 year of experience because my experience is at home, not at a client's
 137 site in a production situation.</p>
 138
 139 <p>As a result, why would anybody trust Arvind's word at all? Why would
 140 anybody work with Arvind or other recruiters at Araucaria Technologies knowing
 141 that their quality control is very sub par?</p>
 142
 143 <p>Recently I found this Tech Recruiter job on DICE. Some of the essential
 144 duties include:</p>
 145
 146 <ul>
 147   <li>Identify the client's business and cultural nuances, as well as define
 148   the position, its functions, challenges selling points, and viability.
 149   <b><u>Uncover the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities of the ideal
 150   candidate</u></b>.</li>
 151
 152   <li>Coordinate with Program Managers and Account Managers to <b><u>ensure quality delivery to client's requisitions</u></b>. Work with sales team
 153   on account development and account management.</li>
 154
 155   <li>Actively market <b><u>qualified candidates</u></b> to new and existing
 156   clients. Utilize sales techniques to expand business through research and
 157   prospecting and turning client inquiries into job requisitions.</li>
 158
 159   <li>Assist with the design of a sourcing strategy to uncover both passive
 160   and active candidates through existing and new sources in order to
 161   maintain an <b><u>effective pool of candidates</u></b>. Utilize
 162   electronic process in recruiting and placement to <b><u>maximize
 163   efficiency and time saving</u></b>.</li>
 164
 165   <li><b><u>Target the most qualified candidates and screen resumes to
 166   identify potential matches</u></b>.</li>
 167
 168   <li>Present opportunity to candidate and conduct in-depth interview to
 169   <b><u>determine suitability and interest of candidate. Identify, evaluate,
 170   and summarize relevant technical experience, knowledge, hard and soft
 171   skills, and abilities in relation to job requirements</u></b>.</li>
 172
 173   <li><b><u>Submit qualified candidates</u></b> and respond to client
 174   concerns.</li>
 175 </ul>
 176
 177 <p>So as you can see recruiters should be qualifying people
 178 before emailing candidate who incompetent recruiters such as Arvind
 179 obviously have not qualified.</p>
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