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Subject: Re: Headhunters in net.jobs
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Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 14:08:37 EST
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> ***
> 
> 	Aren't there many students that use the net?  Headhunters
> might be helpful to them.  I have met many headhunters in my career
> and some of them are creeps and some of them are nice.  One called
> me periodically for a few years and when a friend graduated from
> college (who I recommended as a UNIX expert) the headhunter 
> spend weeks getting him job interviews and such.   That sure beats
> the hell out of going to "recuitment day" and going to the tables
> signing up for interviews.   After all, headhunters talk money.
> When I first started programming professionally I had no
> idea what the going rate was.
> 
> 	I think that as long as the commercial stuff does not get
> out of hand (what is it now, 0.01% of the traffic?) it provides
> a useful service.

One wonders if the traffic debating whether head hunters belong in
net.jobs doesn't exceed the head hunter traffic.

Charlie