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The (now extinct) reign of I.T. Head Hunters
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Head hunters or Consulting Firms were an American employment phonomena in the 1990s when jobs were plentiful and employees lazy..
I.T Head hunters
1. Don't Pay any benefits to their employees.
2. Don't have their employees careers in mind but their own profits.
3. Will farm out a person at $100/hr and pocket $50/hr or more and provide nothing for the favor.
4. Will not go to bat for their employees but for the employer.
5. Bring nothing to the table that a quick scan of the classifieds or trip to the Internet can solve.
6. Do not pay their contractors while off a job.
7. Will outsource your job to a cheaper player in a minute.
8. All fight for the same local postings.
9. Will subject their consultants to background checks, skills tests, IQ tests all without themselves taking these same tests.
10. Cant exist without the talent, but will only buddy-up to the job source.
11. Come and go.
12. Have unstable management both in execution and philosophy.
13. Will advertise for a certain job opening in a community, collect up all the resumes that match the job order, based on keywords, give close-scoring applicants a skills test, which they pass; then proceed to advertise for the same position in trade or local media for which the applicant has demonstrated skill mastery, just so they can pick from the most-able-to-fool skill set, maximizing their profits.
14. Will read this and say to themselves "Gosh, looks like he had a bad experience somewhere" or "Just another bad employee we are glad to be rid of".
15. Will do this all with a straight face, as if this is "normal in this business".
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