RE: Salary issues

[David Castro <thetechwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

> I am a recruiter/manager.  I know the profession has received a bad rap
> because of some greedy people, but I think it might be unfair to say that
> you would not put interest into anything a recruiter says.  I can HONESTLY
> say that my objective is to find candidates jobs.  

I have used SF Bay Area recruiters several times in my 6 years in the field
(jeez...has it been 6 years already??). Every one of them has been a good
experience. I like working with them, especially when they handle the salary
negotiations. I tell them what I want, and they do the salary dance, and come
to me with a figure. I ended up with a $11,000 raise the first time I used a
recruiter, a $5,000 the next time, and a $40,000 raise this last time (though,
this last time, the company did the salary negotiations--if you can call me
trying to keep my jaw from hitting the carpet when they made the offer, a
negotiation--directly with me, instead of through the recruiter).

But, of course, YMMV.

-David Castro
 email -at- davidcastro -dot- com
 http://www.davidcastro.com

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail
http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

*** Deva(tm) Tools for Dreamweaver and Deva(tm) Search ***
Build Contents, Indexes, and Search for Web Sites and Help Systems
Available now at http://www.devahelp.com or info -at- devahelp -dot- com

TECH*COMM 2001 Conference, July 15-18 in Washington, DC
The Help Technology Conference, August 21-24 in Boston, MA
Details and online registration at http://www.SolutionsEvents.com


---
You are currently subscribed to techwr-l as: archive -at- raycomm -dot- com
To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-techwr-l-obscured -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
Send administrative questions to ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com -dot-  Visit 
http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/ for more resources and info.