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CyberCoders Recruiter Showcase: Sharon Brown, My Texas Recruiting Partner!

I wanted to introduce you to another one of my associates here at CyberCoders. The last time we introduced you to Curt Weigel. Today I'd like you to meet Sharon Brown. She is a Texas-Based CyberCoder like myself, and one of the outstanding recruiters we have here to support you. Please say hello to Sharon.

VB: Tell us about yourself
I’m a enthusiastic Recruiter who loves the job I’m in! Every day is great day when you place talented candidates in awesome companies. It’s like matchmaking on the job market!
VB: How long have you been recruiting? How long have you been working at CyberCoders?

I’ve been with CyberCoders almost six years and worked 2 ½ years at an administrative-focused agency prior to CC.

VB: What are your areas of expertise?
Commercial and Residential Audio Visual Integration companies are above and beyond my passion and forte. I love all aspects of engineering recruiting, however. Anything from Biomed to recycled paper to mobile-home siding! I love engineers. They’re smart, organized, detail orientated and always do well in interviews!
VB: What are some open positions that you are recruiting for at this time?

I have a Crestron Programmer in Dallas for a Commercial AV Company
http://ping.fm/THiRO

and an AV Integration Manager in Seattle, also for a Commercial AV Company
http://ping.fm/16TBA

VB: What is the best way to contact you?
Sharon.Brown@cybercoders.com

Getting an offer (the right offer) out of a job interview

So you are good candidate and your recruiter has you set up for an interview at a company you definitely would like to work with. You go in and nail your interview. The company wants to make you an offer on the spot. You ask them to make you an offer and they come in 20% less than where you want. Dang!

What do you do now?            

              

The lesson to learn here is that you need to trust your recruiter. You don’t have to have a discussion of salary right there on the spot. You can talk salary and you may not run into this situation, but if you do there isn’t any reason you couldn’t have waited a day. Engage the recruiter that put you in front of the client and have an open and frank discussion about a game plan on approaching the primary purpose of working…to get paid.

Not every job is about salary, trust me I am aware of that. But if you don’t have that discussion with your recruiter then you may never know what you could have earned. In the last year alone, I’ve seen candidates take pay hits when they really didn’t need to.

As for clients, good deals are always in the cards, but if you aren’t giving value for value, then you leave yourself open for a backfill when someone else comes along and offers your ‘employee’ fair market value.  The recruiter you are working with wants to make sure you get the best bang for your and repeat business. He or she will work with you to make sure everyone feels whole.

Just take a second, cool off and give your recruiter a call. Nothing will change in 24 hours…48 hours maybe.

Vahid Behzadi

Executive Recruiter

Ridiculous Candidate response to emails...

You know sometimes I will mistakenly send an email to someone who doesn't qualify because of a lack of experience for one of my open roles. I can understand frustration with that. And sometimes, I will send someone who is technically qualified an email and get a response like this...

"I AM ANTI AMERICAN AND ANTI INDIAN AND DO NOT WORK FOR THE USA OR ITS COMPANIES OR FUCKING ILLITERATE INDIANS LIKE YOU.

SO GO FUCK YOUR OWN ASS AND THAT OF OBAMA AND YOUR COWARD INDIANS

DO NOT COME TO ME EVER AGAIN IF YOU ARE AN AMERICAN BORN YOU WILL BE SHOOT TO DEATH AND IF YOU ARE IN INDIAN YOU WILL BE DRAWNED IN A DITCH.

DO NOT EVER APPROACH ANY OF US FOR YOUR FILTHY JOBS, FUCKING PIECES OF INMORAL AND COWARD AMERICANS AND THEIR NEGROS AND INDIANS WORKERS."

This is real, this happened this morning, and it still amazing to me in 2010 that we have this kind of stuff going on. Its not a left or right thing, because I get responses like this on occasion from people completely on the other side of the spectrum as well.

Yikes!

Vahid Behzadi
Executive Recruiter