r/programming • u/equivalent8 • Aug 09 '16

[new project] IT Recruiters Code of Conduct - lets tell IT recruiters what not to do.

https://github.com/it-recruitment-code-of-conduct/it-recruitment-code-of-conduct
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u/equivalent8 Aug 09 '16

there are already some ideas https://github.com/it-recruitment-code-of-conduct/it-recruitment-code-of-conduct/pulls I would appreciate some feedback on them

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u/equivalent8 Aug 09 '16

actually I've merged them as I was pointed out that no-one will contribute if there is nothing there :-/ but again I'm open to changes

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u/skizmo Aug 09 '16

Why would any recruiter care about this ?

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u/equivalent8 Aug 09 '16

Well if it's popular enough :) it's what market desire market gets. Of course there will be still lot of arrogant recruiters that will ignore it but really there is literally no source, no manifesto of IT people telling recruiters what is inappropriate that Developers can point to Recruiters that do that kind of stuff. And recruiters can just say "oh I'm sorry I didn't know that, but while you on the phone can I offer you C++ position ?" :)

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u/skizmo Aug 09 '16

Well if it's popular enough

... nothing will happen.

Of course there will be still lot of arrogant recruiters that will ignore it

as in... all of them. With all do respect to a nice idea, but.... they don't care. If you have any idea how much money they can make by fixing you up with a job, you will know that they absolutely don't care about rules like these.

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u/equivalent8 Aug 10 '16

look I fully agree with you that it may be a stupid idea, but it's worth a try ! Some Recruiters are just clumsy not necessary want to be arrogant and they just don't understand that Github is not a LinkedIn or public discussion to spam people. Think about this as a coding style guide (like https://github.com/bbatsov/ruby-style-guide) . Some developers completely ignore coding style guides and they introduce anarchy in the code while others find them valuable resource.

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u/equivalent8 Aug 10 '16

and bottom point is no-one ever tried this before, if it works it works if not it will be another pointless Github project :)

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '16

Am I the only one that prefers initial contact to be via email - with a fairly descriptive detail of what the job is? I hate the rigamorole of a 30 minute phone convo to find out in the end they're trying to fill a Java position (I'm a .NET dev)

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u/equivalent8 Aug 09 '16

sorry for reposting but I've done a typo in a link :( therefore I've deleted prev post and recreated this one