recruiter

Never let a single recruiter get you all of your jobs or even a majority of your jobs.

If you're sneaky about it, you and the recruiter can get the client to pay the finder's fee.

At one place that rejected me the recruiter offered to tell me the reasons over the phone.

This identifies you as a mark whom the recruiter can place into a £400/day contact and pay you £200.

Also when you sign, you sign with the company not the recruiter and have a solid contract in place.

My ex is a 30 year tech recruiter and her and all her peers are having a miserable time of it.

A good recruiter will have contacts that can help you but it probably helps you more to develop the marketing skills yourself.

Another good strategy is to contemptuously dismiss the first contract a recruiter mentions.

The recruiter clicks on that button and gets a random fact about you.

The particular sector I worked in was finance and that is still heavily recruiter driven unfortunately.

The best contractors know that contract recruiter help you make more money.

If you're just getting in to it, start with a recruiter.

Then the recruiter called me and sent me a take home project that should take "5-7 hours".

Finally the recruiter called me with a one-line brush off "we've decided not to move forward at this time…" Granted, this was a bad experience, and it won't always be like this.

I had one recruiter repeatedly send me calls and emails for a position I explicitly told them I wanted no part of the first time he contacted me, and he didn't stop until I sent an email saying "please cease and desist from contacting me again, or I will take legal action against both you and your firm" (I should've also called his firm's HR department, but c'est la vie...).