Posts Tagged "recruiter"

A recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn about a job. Here’s some of his message to me: One of the best-known agencies in San Francisco was looking for an interaction designer with 7 years of experience. Someone who can do lots of tasks within the User-Centered Design process. And rapid prototyping. This is a […]

Yesterday morning, a recruiter called me at 7am my time. He was on the east coast. At first I was like HOLY CATS who is calling me this early! But I was awake, and happy to talk to a nice recruiter. Why did he call so early? Good reason. He assumed I couldn’t take calls […]

A recruiter contacted me about a Director of UX position. His boss, the guy who seems to be the owner of the recruiting company, wanted to consider me for it. He wanted a phone interview last week. We made that appointment. He completely stood me up. No email to say he was running late. No […]

[content-shortcode post_id=6330] Recruiters. I’m often frustrated with them. I get so many calls and emails from people who don’t know me trying to put me in what’s usually a way wrong job. Something for which I don’t even qualify. What a huge waste of time. But this email last week battles the famous Bad Interview […]

As my Sony contract is ending soon, I’ve been looking for my next gig. Contract, full time, consulting… it’s all good. I’m open to lots of things. And in the course of looking, of course I’m running into lots of recruiters. Most recruiters have been good to me. They call me up and get to […]

I follow a few recruiters on Twitter in case they have an open gig. I often don’t have the time to troll Elance or other sites to try to find my next consulting adventure. So I’m sometimes hoping it’ll be tweeted to me. I’ve noticed a few trends based on the tweets I’ve been watching […]

I just read a blog post about why headhunting for UX people is really hard, from the point of view of a recruiter. From the side of the “talent,” it’s been beyond frustrating. I feel for the recruiters, but here’s my side of the story. All Things To All People Some of the positions for […]