I spend a lot of time dealing with recruiters - responding to queries, and accepting or rejecting endless amount of LinkedIn contact requests. I mostly agree to those requests, unless it's obviously a spam account, since you never know what a new contact will give, but a quick review says that way less than 1% of the recruiters who contact me will actually end up signing a new contract. This means 99% of the time I spend on new contacts from recruiters is waste, and if my experiences hold up for the industry 1 , 99% of the recruiters' time spent on initial contact is wasted as well.
All this waste is not very lean 2 .
I don't subscribe to the recruiter hate that a lot of contractors do - I've got little patience for sales, and so far almost all of my contracts come through recruiters who contact me out of the blue with a proposal too good to turn down. I simply can't afford to be hostile to recruiters when they bring me all of my business! On the other hand, while a handful of recruiters keeps my bills paid, it seems to me that the business as a whole could use a bit of a tweak to cause less annoyance and a lot less wasted time for all involved.
In the interest of not just complaining but actually offer suggestions for improvement, .. cntd
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