Hung Lee invited me to talk on the Brainfood recruitment show on “how to build social capital with programmers”. The show airs today here, and will be available on replay at the same link. While gathering my thoughts, I wrote this article. What is social capital? Wikipedia says: “the networks…

Recruiters are rarely proud of what they do. Most do it solely because the money can be great. It is no surprise that depression among recruiters is common, and the high level seems to be unique to our profession. I don’t remember that my dad, an engineer, would ever complain…

What is the biggest added value of agency recruiters? If you ask me, it’s de-risking candidates on behalf of the clients. Depending on how long you have been in recruitment you may reply to me: Well, yeah, you could say that, or you could try to put yourself in the…

When there is big money involved and little chance of getting caught, people do immoral things. As a recruiter, I am often faced with such a dilemma. In over five years in this business, I wasn’t honest or ethical all the time. When I use the term “recruiter” I refer…

In my day job in technical recruitment I talk to dozens of tech firms and hundreds of software engineers every week. Some developers think the web domain is crowded with too many developers and that salaries will go down because of it. I was asked by a reader if it…

This is a guide I wrote with a professional editor to sell it but we decided to publish it for free. Enjoy: You might think video calling is trivial. You just switch on a camera and then have a meeting. But there is so much more to it. Once, I…

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Why this article? The toilet paper shortage made me write this post how you can hygienically clean your butt with water and your hand only. After reading this educational post, you won’t need to buy paper anymore, so you can avoid supermarkets. So, the likelihood of you being trampled to death for toilet…

tl;dr; The incentives of employers, job-seekers and recruiters don’t align and won’t change. Platforms like LinkedIn make the situation worse by giving the tools to scale spam. To understand why recruiter spam exists, one has to look at the incentives of all players involved: Employers, recruiters and platforms like LinkedIn…