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Comment by alexwolfe | Hacker News Reader

This is sound advice, forget the big job boards, write companies directly. People love hearing a sincere email about why you want to work at their company. Set yourself apart by doing a little research and it will pay off big time.

Besides, many good jobs are not even listed on the big job boards.

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I just concluded a job search, and found that writing sincere emails did indeed establish a positive rapport, but 1) job-seeking engineers are already universally adored and 2) the recipient of the email will need to be herded, because their primary job is not making sure you get hired.

Recruiters, guys. Do you know there is a whole class of people that will work full-time to bring you whatever jobs you want? Why am I the only one mentioning them in this thread?

Why am I the only one mentioning them in this thread?

Because most recruiters are ignorant incompetents, or at least most of the interactions that potential recruitess have are with ignorant incompetents. If you want a longer, more involved version of this look at Peroni's comment history, (formerly KoZeN).

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Peroni

Recruiters mainly make the HR and/or management folks happy not necessarily the IT guys you'll working with. If you're a good candidate, they only do lots of work for you because they can land a better bonus.

This is all great advice. It's nice to hear some feedback from IT guys who have recently been job hunting in the Bay Area.

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