Technical Recruiting Needs to Focus on Selling the Position
I&#x27;ve started giving formulaic recruiter responses to recruiters that send formulaic inquiries. My response is along the lines of<p>&gt; Dear PERSON. Thanks for reaching out. I&#x27;m happy where I am but for $Y base salary with SOME_OTHER_BENEFITS I would consider a move. Let me know if that sounds reasonable for your team otherwise I will be in touch if anything changes. Feel free to reach out again in 6-12 months either way.<p>This is a bit cold and focused on the money, but recruiters are usually sending the same emails anyway - as the article points out. Ultimately why waste everyone&#x27;s time if you wouldn&#x27;t really consider a move anyway? In the 4 months since I&#x27;ve been doing this, almost every recruiter that has responded has responded with &quot;thanks for responding and thanks for being up front.&quot;<p>To be &quot;honest&quot; with this approach, put a number in $Y that would <i>really really</i> make you consider changing jobs. 1.5x your current salary? Double if you&#x27;re super happy where you are? Maybe SOME_OTHER_BENEFITS becomes &quot;really high equity percentage&quot; or &quot;fully remote&quot; or &quot;work 3 days a week&quot;?<p>I put my $Y pretty high so most companies can&#x27;t afford me, but I&#x27;ve got 1 or 2 companies that may be able to pay it in the pipe. Win-win.