<div dir="ltr">Recruiters, particularly the more independent/floating ones, particularly if you approach them, are usually not too interested in actually finding you a job as typically trying to consult you to be some model candidate. It's a bit of a racket I find, and know some folks going through this very thing right now with a lot of money invested with a particular "recruiter".<div><br></div><div>There are very, very few recruiters I pick up a call for, some very well-connected folks that know to call me when they have no one else to do a job. Most recruiter and firms are so hated and burned into memory I know their general DID prefix and refuse calls from anyone at their building. They are generally not your friends, and rather just like cops/taxes/bill collectors, trying to make a quota in getting money out of you one way or another. They tend to make for their company a good 20-30% off your hide if independent, some percentage of that for themselves, or whatever their salary as an internal head count on annual and not be fired, so don't delude that they're being anything in selfish for their even talking to you.</div><div><br></div><div>I've not gotten a notable job from a recruiter in probably 10 years, all the best are through referrals or just folks I know aside from recruiters. I carried this into independent consulting eventually, tend to keep a roof over my head.</div><div><br></div><div>-mb</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 9:29 PM AZ Pete <<a href="mailto:plug@sonoranzen.com">plug@sonoranzen.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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for me to move on to <font face="Calibri">more
challenging and interesting projects.<font face="Calibri"> <font face="Calibri">W<font face="Calibri">hile I play with <font face="Calibri">Linux <font face="Calibri">exten<font face="Calibri">sively, my <font face="Calibri">da<font face="Calibri">y job is with Mi<font face="Calibri">c<font face="Calibri">ros<font face="Calibri">oft tec<font face="Calibri">hnologies
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Wehner<br>
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