Your statement is both downright offensive and untrue.
1. Great recruiters work long hours around others’ schedules
2. Recruiters deal with tons of rejection that most developers don’t have the stomach for
3. Female recruiters are often overworked, harassed, mansplained to and disrespected in our industry as they deal with fragile male egos, imposter syndrome, interview anxiety, etc
To build a real career as a realtor or recruiter requires perseverance in the face of rejection, work and networking skills. They are worthy of our respect.
Recruiters do a valuable job; I don't pity them and I do not envy them.
The number of bad recruiters I've interacted with are high, but that's largely selection bias: the ones that reach me are not paying attention enough to realise that I'm not going to move.
I've worked closely with recruiters and their job is tiring and thankless; in the end though they can go home peacefully and it's easier to plan their day.
I can't speak to the reason I noticed this phenomena (of conventionally attractive women being overrepresented in recruiting), but I could believe that it's possible that men are more likely to respond to pretty women reaching out to them with kind words and making them feel wanted and valued; thus conventionally attractive women tend to be more successful in the industry, and thus we sort of have some kind of survivorship bias at play.
I don't know if that's true, but I could believe it quite comfortably.
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- Oh, but doesn't it require a lot of technical knowledge?
- Not exactly, we are just checking a) if he has at least 5 years of experience, b) that he graduated from one of the top 10 schools.
>perseverance in the face of rejection
The only rejection this company was facing was when their software pipeline for dumping resumes at Google and others was broken for a week. So no money was incoming.
- Oh, I can look at it if they want.
- See, this thing is written by a friend of the owner. They live at the same dorm room, actually. So it's politically incorrect for me to even suggest that something is wrong.
And so they persevered, indeed.