hiring manager and job seeker strategy right now
with taylor desseyn (solo)
- job seekers should keep one or two trusted local recruiters plus three or four recruiters in other hot tech cities
- use short calls of three to ten minutes to quickly figure out which recruiters you actually like working with
- local recruiters give you eyes and ears in your city, so lean on them for local networking and reputation info
- hiring managers no longer need to use a recruiting firm in their own city since remote recruiting now works nationally
- expect candidate lead time of two to four weeks right now, especially for senior technical talent, so start the search early