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Context: I have been a tech recruiter for 5+ years (Amazon, Meta, Google, and start-up companies). I'm taking this year off to (a) recover from burn-out and (b) the job market is terrible right now. But tbh, if the market is still hot, I don't know if I can do another recruiting job. After my experience at start-ups, I don't think I want to join start-ups again. I still have PTSD from those companies. Maybe I just happened to pick the bad apples. Anyways. I've been thinking about pivoting to a different career path (in tech). Work-life balance is important to me. I'm a female in her 30s and probably want to start a family soon. I think SWE schedule can be intense but I'm not sure? Would love to get your feedback here. I'm super introverted, maybe that's why I hate recruiting so much. I don't think I can do sales, though, some of my previous hiring managers said that I would be good with Sales Ops, Revenue Ops, or Business Development roles. They think I have great people skills but as mentioned, I prefer not to be in toooo customer front-facing roles. I did this at one of the start-ups that i worked at and i'm traumatized til this day. that was the job that honestly made me think about quitting tech altogether. Is anyone else who has transitioned to a different career path and is much happier? What did you choose? tysm! I'm all ears. #careerintech #pivottoanewcareerpath #newcareerspath
What do you not like about recruiting? Lot of folks are introvert in recruiter and they are good recruiters.Recruiting Programs, ops, people analytics is another area if you are like data, HR. If you want to learn workday, they are are role with companies that implemented workday. workday analyst etc. This also not a good time since many qualified folks are already available unless you have strong referral. It's easy to switch when job market is better
I think there are two types Recruiting where youâre more front facing with hiring managers and candidates vs Recruiting/HR Ops. Iâd love the Recruiting/HR Ops side of things but when I interview, I keep getting an offer as a recruiter and for recruiting ops, I was overqualified (thatâs what most companies said to me)
Ops does good deal of work in mid to large size companies.. probably over qualified for startup but definitely not for mid to large enterprise.I feel may be not qualified enough for those..
How can one burn out in recruiting? Honest question. I've never seen a recruiter work or respond to an email after 5pm. On the other hand if you go into Engineering dev, software dev, etc ... prepare yourself to have to work all the time and a lot of toxicity. You will need to protect your ideas/work (so other don't steal them), work hard to keep up with people that work day and night and weekends. The further down the tech hole you go... the less soft skills and washing/showering/teeth brushing skills people have. Also, get ready for that. Also, people work so much that they don't know what else to talk about. All conversations will be about computers, programming and math. In my field the "its 3dB" better joke keep coming up over an over. If you end up working with PhDs you will quickly learn what narcism is. Their head is a roledex of names that they call on to help them get things done for them. They are good at being your friend to extract things from you. What else, once you start working you realize that no matter how hard you work to get a good interesting job, eventually you get stuck with 2 years of repeatitive useless bs work. Then you will see the immature inexperienced still in school intern get the pioneering work/project that everyone wants. Isn't it great how employers reward entilted kids that haven't done shit yet, while screen their loyal hard working employees. Just lovely. I could go on but this field is so sad that I think I should just skip to the end. Get out of tech. Go into health/medical field. They always have shortages of doctors, nurses, medical techs, people in finance,, etc. Nursing pays more than tech and its short 4 year program. Front line doctors also only need a short 2 year medical and 2 year residency. Why is health care so much better... easy insanely good salaries and good WLB. People in health care have a monopoly on health so they can charge a fortune and also they understand that health means work boundaries and exercising, etc. Unlike tech which wants you to sit at your computer as much as possible.
People outside of recruiting really have no idea what recruiters do. Recruiters do so much more than ârespond to emailsâ and reach out to candidates. We have many more internal responsibilities such as project planning, mentoring, presentations, trainings, sourcing, interviewing, resume editing, meetings with internal teams and stakeholders, helping ALL candidates with interview prep, writing offers, negotiating, schedule interviews, onboarding, and much more. All this to say, yes we are burnt out and overworked. Particularly at startups and big tech, we have very high metrics and standards to uphold and have so much ask from top down. Candidates really need to stop with this entitlement like we must be at your beck and call. We talk to more than 100+ candidates a week. Youâre not the only eng in our inbox.
Dude thank you!! Haha! Yes, thereâs so much more and everyone is always mad at you for the things you canât control like budget, comp, headcounts, etc. manager wants to hire talents fast. Talents want more money. Finance doesnât agree. Etc.
How about program roles within recruiting? When I worked for Amazon those program managers had it easy, and they really didnât do much.
Yes I thought of that and my previous manger was actively blocking me from transferring to a different team, let alone a whole new job family đ