Desperately looking for a job after layoff. 10 years of recruiting experience.

[Anonymous]

As the title says I’m desperately looking for a job after my team got laid off in May. I have 10 years of recruiting experience; my main space has been in govcon.

Know anyone hiring?

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Why now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why now?

I’ve been looking, hence the “desperately” part…

[Anonymous]

Is there any way you can try for other types of HR jobs? It seems like most companies have laid off their recruiting staff - my LinkedIn seems over saturated with recruiters looking for work.
I know HR generalists and benefits people are still in demand. Can you up skill by getting a PHR or SPHR or a SHRM credential? Good HR generalist people are hard to find.
Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Agree - a lot of recruiters were laid off.

Are you looking for fully remote?

[Anonymous]

Please find another job. Recruiting is such a BS job. I was seriously no kidding harassed on LinkedIn by six recruiters, 5 of them from off shore companies in India, about the same job at Lockheed Martin.

You are essentially taking a cut from the pay of the person who is doing the work.

Recruiters are now being off shored, too.

I personally do not respond to any more recruiters. Every time I interact with a recruiter, it means LESS pay and benefits for me. I'm better off conducting a national job search on my own.

Now I guess you know how it feels to be out of work and desperate that you'll take any measly crumb a recruiter offers you.

[Anonymous]

Start a niche recruiting firm. That's what I did 6 years ago and it's going fabulously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Start a niche recruiting firm. That's what I did 6 years ago and it's going fabulously.

6 years ago was a different world of a job market.

Expect change soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please find another job. Recruiting is such a BS job. I was seriously no kidding harassed on LinkedIn by six recruiters, 5 of them from off shore companies in India, about the same job at Lockheed Martin.

You are essentially taking a cut from the pay of the person who is doing the work.

Recruiters are now being off shored, too.

I personally do not respond to any more recruiters. Every time I interact with a recruiter, it means LESS pay and benefits for me. I'm better off conducting a national job search on my own.

Now I guess you know how it feels to be out of work and desperate that you'll take any measly crumb a recruiter offers you.

This is pretty silly. There are plenty of good recruiters, and many who will actually place you and negotiate on your behalf well (they tend to keep 20-25% of the first year as payment, so it’s lucrative). Recruiters are my first line of defense as a hiring manager; they screen the garbage that comes in - and I do 4 or 5 phone calls instead of 30. Some are better than others to be sure, but you are not doing yourself many favors by categorically refusing to work with one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please find another job. Recruiting is such a BS job. I was seriously no kidding harassed on LinkedIn by six recruiters, 5 of them from off shore companies in India, about the same job at Lockheed Martin.

You are essentially taking a cut from the pay of the person who is doing the work.

Recruiters are now being off shored, too.

I personally do not respond to any more recruiters. Every time I interact with a recruiter, it means LESS pay and benefits for me. I'm better off conducting a national job search on my own.

Now I guess you know how it feels to be out of work and desperate that you'll take any measly crumb a recruiter offers you.

Meh. We went in-house for our recruiting and have a couple of great people who are posting the jobs, sourcing on various sites and representing our smaller company. As a hiring manager, i appreciate having them and they are saving us a lot of legwork and we have gotten some good new tram members in the last several years.

[Anonymous]

I also don't respond to recruiters and dislike them as a whole. I would 100% find a different job. I'm not sure if you have another skill set? College degree?

[Anonymous]

I work at a big tech company and we've laid off recruiters and hiring managers are using ai and LinkedIn with better results

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please find another job. Recruiting is such a BS job. I was seriously no kidding harassed on LinkedIn by six recruiters, 5 of them from off shore companies in India, about the same job at Lockheed Martin.

You are essentially taking a cut from the pay of the person who is doing the work.

Recruiters are now being off shored, too.

I personally do not respond to any more recruiters. Every time I interact with a recruiter, it means LESS pay and benefits for me. I'm better off conducting a national job search on my own.

Now I guess you know how it feels to be out of work and desperate that you'll take any measly crumb a recruiter offers you.

Meh. We went in-house for our recruiting and have a couple of great people who are posting the jobs, sourcing on various sites and representing our smaller company. As a hiring manager, i appreciate having them and they are saving us a lot of legwork and we have gotten some good new tram members in the last several years.

An in-house recruiter is completely different than what I'm referring to.

These new "recruiters" are essentially temp agencies harassing job seekers to work for THEIR companies at a great reduction of pay and benefits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please find another job. Recruiting is such a BS job. I was seriously no kidding harassed on LinkedIn by six recruiters, 5 of them from off shore companies in India, about the same job at Lockheed Martin.

You are essentially taking a cut from the pay of the person who is doing the work.

Recruiters are now being off shored, too.

I personally do not respond to any more recruiters. Every time I interact with a recruiter, it means LESS pay and benefits for me. I'm better off conducting a national job search on my own.

Now I guess you know how it feels to be out of work and desperate that you'll take any measly crumb a recruiter offers you.

Meh. We went in-house for our recruiting and have a couple of great people who are posting the jobs, sourcing on various sites and representing our smaller company. As a hiring manager, i appreciate having them and they are saving us a lot of legwork and we have gotten some good new tram members in the last several years.

An in-house recruiter is completely different than what I'm referring to.

These new "recruiters" are essentially temp agencies harassing job seekers to work for THEIR companies at a great reduction of pay and benefits.

Not my experience working with recruiters but obviously that’s an easy “no” calm down.