<p>If this is so critical, how could his school’s career center not have talked to them about this ?? Esp after encouraging them to expose themselves. I will ask him, but I seriously doubt he understood the implications.</p>
<p>DontPanic: you seem to making this a much bigger situation than it is. Your child is a computer engineering major with a +3.0 GPA, EVEN WITH the worst case scenario of this ONE job not being available, he still has a couple hundred more options since that field is very sought after. Have him go on Indeed and start applying (but only to the jobs that are straight through the employer, for the ones with links to recruiter sites just go to the companies site and search for it there. He will be fine, there is definitely more than just one job available).</p>
<p>Thanks Chuck. My worst case scenario was in this statement by CRD:</p>
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<p>which nobody refuted. Someone posted earlier that to try to work around a retained recruiter is unethical, but didn’t say anything about the contingency type. Surely, “flooding companies with your resume” without the student understanding the possible consequences is unethical. </p>
<p>I will tell him to tell the recruiter that she is not authorized to send his resume anywhere besides the original one, but how can that be enforced - there is no contract here - just a resume in her hand. And for all I know, she had already done it.</p>
<p>Don’tPanic: don’t panic. He’s not virtually unemployable. </p>
<p>He can stay on Linked-In as a confirmation of his earnestness, but pare down the description to 2 or 3 eye-catching highlights (not detail.) Then, anyone who checks will see enough to confirm interest. </p>
<p>Many recruiters on retainer are out there looking for ripe candidates. Employers can count on this sort of headhunter to do all the initial vetting. It saves the employer the culling and can mean good candidates are presented. Don’t forget that the recruiter builds a relationship of confidence with the hiring companies. In many cases, you want to be in with a reputable recruiter who reps the sort of employment you seek with the sorts of firms you covet.</p>
<p>I also interviewed folks for positions that required engineering savvy. If the first job doesn’t come from a firm that impresses, you look for the position that offers the experiences, skill growth, and responsibility. That’s the diff between working for Starbucks versus a smaller, less known firm or on a project that will matter on the resume.</p>
<p>ps. ime, recruiters usually ask if you authorize for this position or allow them to send your info out to others.</p>
<p>I strongly suspect this person is not on a retainer, but is ‘contingency’ for reasons I stated in an earlier post. I have to admit, I’m not sure tho. (I will have to change my screen name now.)</p>
<p>Again, even if that’s the case, the recruiter wouldn’t be in that business if it didn’t make him money, and he wouldn’t make money if he never placed anyone in jobs. It’s not the end of the world.</p>
<p>ClassicRockerDad’s comments are some of the silliest / least informed posts I’ve ever read on CC. You can tell this was written by someone who is completed outdated with the way the world works in this day in age. </p>
<p>In this day in age (ESPECIALLY in the world of tech and engineering), if you are not on LinkedIn you are an extremely unsophisticated job seeker. To the point that I don’t hire anyone if they don’t have a robust profile (and most of my peers…other CEOs have similar views). Additionally, the vast majority of the hires in my organization come from my company’s recruiters finding “passive” candidates on LinkedIn. </p>
<p>For context, I founded a tech company / startup a few years ago that had 400+ employees at acquisition, we were acquired for $500M+ and now I run an organization of 1,000+ employees so I’ve done my fair share of hiring and have used every possible channel.</p>
<p>“Like” button being pushed for ^^^^^^^</p>
<p>Thank you all for your responses. Balthezar, sorry to hijack your thread. I’ll post my answer to your question after this.</p>
<p>OriginalDad, no doubt your response inspired me this morning to <em>finally</em> think to ask son the simple question “How did the woman introduce herself to you?”. He went back to her first email and looked up her company she referenced - it’s a nationwide IT recruting firm. I feel I have egg on my face; but there is a lesson; he should have done that in the first place before continuing to work with her. </p>
<p>In CRD’s defense, he did state his info was from a book, not any credentials he had. BTW, my son is a rocker too; much (probably too much) of his energy the last 3 years has gone into the rock band he’s in in his college town. </p>
<p>Boneh3ad (…resisting urge to misspell name…), the idea that at least someone gets hired sometimes is not that comforting to me; esp. with those high commissions, you only have to place a couple of people to make a good living.</p>
<p>Balthezar, I think any job out of college is better than no job. (sorry, I thought I’d have something less lame.)</p>