[Gllug] Camalyn Vacancy Posts

[Hari Sekhon]

Christopher Hunter wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 17:53 +0000, John G Walker wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:41:09 +0000 Juergen Schinker
>> <ba1020 at homie.homelinux.net> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> good companys explicitly don't work with agencys
>>>       
>> Do have examples of this?
>>     
>
> Many!  
>
> I've worked at high levels in a number of good companies, and all
> recruited through either the "old pals" network, or through personal
> recommendations from existing members of their staff (much the same
> thing!).  
>
> None of them used agencies.  
>
> I did ask on a couple of occasions "Why not?" and received the same
> answer in each case:  the candidates supplied by the agencies were the
> ones unable to get jobs for themselves, and were therefore (generally)
> below the standards required...
>   
Chris,

   This leaves 1 problem:

People who spend all their time on their computers and not networking 
have little to no real network of connections, the people they work with 
don't want to lose them or want them to leave, so they aren't going to 
recommend to someone else to poach them, and those who are lower on the 
pole may themselves not have enough contacts to be of any use.


So the question really becomes:

How does one get ahead on MERIT if nobody knows who you are?


-h

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