Had a recruiter reach out to me about a 3-month contract position. Why on earth would I leave my full time gig for a 3-month one?? Christ

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They don’t actually look at you. They send out blanket emails to people who come up under key word searches. “ I am impressed by your resume! If interested, please send your resume!”

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I had a phone call with an agency in LA that offered me a 3 month freelance role if I moved from NYC. I patiently explained why that seemed like a bad idea

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It’s not the first time I’ve had that offer and it’s always combined with “we’ll probably need someone full time and if you’re here when the role opens...” please don’t dangle that carrot.

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I pasted in a special, un-typeable character after my first name on LinkedIn. About 3/4ths of the messages I get from recruiters will have that special character in there. So I delete those messages.

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That’s genius

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I left my in house gig for an open ended contract at an agency. Ended up staying for 1.5 years and have moved on to way more opportunities bc of it!

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I was offered a year and half contract role once, while I was full-time. Went back and forth over it for a couple weeks with the recruiter, finally decided I’d go for it and started to write my resignation letter the next morning. Phone rings at about 10am (I hadn’t handed in my written letter yet but was about to) and the entire contract was pulled at the last minute due to budget yadayada. That was a little too close for comfort. 😮

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