Hey, I agree that EA could totally use more recruiters, but at the same time, it seems to me like you’re suggesting that lots of people work on recruiting for free (?), which I think has downsides. What do you think?
Also, you mention and I agree:
The best way to build up a model of what the hiring manager is looking for is to be able to ask them a lot of questions.
But I expect it would be hard to get more than ~1 meeting with a hiring manager, for someone working for free as a recruiter. And “begging” for such meetings to understand the needs might, I suspect, be discouraging.
I say again that I agree with you, I’d also like to see more people trying out recruiting, I’m just pointing out big problems I’ve seen with trying this
I assume (not from knowledge, so please correct me) that the main reason that hiring managers don’t want to spend their time or the org’s money on independent recruiters—is that the prior about these recruiters being any good is very low.
Do you think this is true?
If so: Wouldn’t it be better for everyone if the recruiters got something-like-an-interview and some of them got a response of “the chance you’ll be good at this are low, probably try something else” and others get “yeah we think you’re promising, enough to put some resources on helping you” ?
[tone: unconfident but no idea what I’m missing, expecting corrections; on board with your vision and trying to brainstorm ways to improve the current situation, or at least improve my understanding of it so that I can think of something better]
Hey, I agree that EA could totally use more recruiters, but at the same time, it seems to me like you’re suggesting that lots of people work on recruiting for free (?), which I think has downsides. What do you think?
Also, you mention and I agree:
But I expect it would be hard to get more than ~1 meeting with a hiring manager, for someone working for free as a recruiter. And “begging” for such meetings to understand the needs might, I suspect, be discouraging.
I say again that I agree with you, I’d also like to see more people trying out recruiting, I’m just pointing out big problems I’ve seen with trying this
I assume (not from knowledge, so please correct me) that the main reason that hiring managers don’t want to spend their time or the org’s money on independent recruiters—is that the prior about these recruiters being any good is very low.
Do you think this is true?
If so: Wouldn’t it be better for everyone if the recruiters got something-like-an-interview and some of them got a response of “the chance you’ll be good at this are low, probably try something else” and others get “yeah we think you’re promising, enough to put some resources on helping you” ?
[tone: unconfident but no idea what I’m missing, expecting corrections; on board with your vision and trying to brainstorm ways to improve the current situation, or at least improve my understanding of it so that I can think of something better]