internal vs agency recruiters #techjobs

22 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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Internal recruiters aren't expected to remember you. Agency recruiters meet 15 candidates a week and work on commission, so they're motivated to actually place you in jobs. That's why job seekers should prioritize agency recruiters.

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In my opinion, it's fine reaching out to those folks, but like their job isn't to really remember you. And I don't mean to be mean. Yeah. Internal recruiters, that's just not their responsibility. Agency recruiters are responsible for that, right? Like people don't realize, like my entire job with an— as an agency recruiter was to meet 15 people a week for 12 years. It's a lot of people too. Not to mention meetups, conferences. That's not even counting conferences and meetups and, and other events that I went to. That is just pure grinding every single day. Probably more now, right? Like agency recruiters is who you need to meet. Yeah. Because they are like, cuz they are highly commissioned, low base, and they want to get you a job. Yeah. Yeah. Yep.