Current Events > Is it normal for the company name and salary to be hidden on a job listing?

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I had a recruiter reach out to me for a job that sounds cool and requires pretty specific skills I happen to have experience with. She had me fill out a profile and upload a resume on some website, and said she would share the job listing after (kinda annoying but ok). She sent it to me this morning (I have a call with her in a few hours), and the company name and salary range is blurred out lol

it seems weird to me, but is this normal? I've never really gone through a recruiter before

Yes

Yes. Most recruiters won't list the company name. Among other things, it prevents you from applying directly to the company which makes the recruiter lose out on pay. They don't get paid until they place someone in a job.

BlazinBlue88 posted...

Yes. Most recruiters won't list the company name. Among other things, it prevents you from applying directly to the company which makes the recruiter lose out on pay. They don't get paid until they place someone in a job.

ahh ok that makes sense i guess. I wanted to look into the company myself

TeaMilk posted...

ahh ok that makes sense i guess. I wanted to look into the company myself

Also there are times the company will start the recruiter/hiring process when they are about to lay someone off. I'm the only person in my company with my job title so if I saw an open position listed with the same title, I'd know something was up.

Generally the recruiter will at least tell you the industry during the first phone call. Once you get deeper into the process, they'll tell you the company name. Also just to let you know, this first call with the recruiter isn't really an interview, it's probably fluff. Often the recruiters I talk to like this aren't technical(I remember you being a software dev) so they can't answer any technical questions you may have about the job. They are the type to ask you if you have experience with Microsoft Office even though you listed on your resume you knew Word, Excel, PP, etc.

I'm jaded enough in my IT career that they need to provide the job listing and salary range up front before I even take a call with them.

Don't some states mandate salary range transparency on an open position? Or does going through a recruiter bypass that requirement?

Wow I sent my resume over and she cancelled our call like immediately. feels kinda bad i guess, I thought she'd at least want to talk to me even if i wasn't the right fit. My entire work history is on my linkedin so it wasn't anything new...

The role was for some stuff around medical image processing with OpenCV, a field i'm SUPER interested in, and I had an internship doing that exact thing before I got into cybersecurity.

oh well i have a job already at least

DnDer posted...

Don't some states mandate salary range transparency on an open position? Or does going through a recruiter bypass that requirement?

Only a couple.

Recruiters are vultures. They pressure you to operate on their schedule. They pretend that they're arming you and speed running you into an interview but all you're getting is extra stress and not much time to do your own due diligence.

TeaMilk posted...

Wow I sent my resume over and she cancelled our call like immediately. feels kinda bad i guess, I thought she'd at least want to talk to me even if i wasn't the right fit. My entire work history is on my linkedin so it wasn't anything new...

There's a small island of good recruiters in a sea of shitty ones. I still get emails from the terrible ones saying to the effect of "I see you have 14 years in IT and currently build out cloud infrastructure while living on the East coast. How would you like to move to the west coast for a 6 month contractor lvl 1 helpdesk job at $13 an hour?"

This is why I ask for the job listing and salary range up front. I'm not wasting my time on any more of their nonsense.

Starks posted...

Recruiters are vultures. They pressure you to operate on their schedule. They pretend that they're arming you and speed running you into an interview but all you're getting is extra stress and not much time to do your own due diligence.

Yeah, my singular experience with one so far was not good I guess. She pestered me over text to fill out her online portal thing, and had me go through all this just to reject me without a chance a couple hours before our call

I feel like I would have had a better shot if I found this listing organically and applied >_> Or like could have spoken to someone technical about my relevant experience

BlazinBlue88 posted...

There's a small island of good recruiters in a sea of shitty ones. I still get emails from the terrible ones saying to the effect of "I see you have 14 years in IT and currently build out cloud infrastructure while living on the East coast. How would you like to move to the west coast for a 6 month contractor lvl 1 helpdesk job at $13 an hour?"

This is why I ask for the job listing and salary range up front. I'm not wasting my time on any more of their nonsense.

Yeah I get a few of those occasionally too and just ignore them lol. This was the first one i've responded to, because it was local, and for a pretty specific thing I'd had experience with before. Honestly thought I had a good shot but w/e i guess

TeaMilk posted...

Yeah I get a few of those occasionally too and just ignore them lol. This was the first one i've responded to, because it was local, and for a pretty specific thing I'd had experience with before. Honestly thought I had a good shot but w/e i guess

They clearly were looking to find someone to fit the requirements HR sent over to them line by line which proves their lack of tech knowledge. A legit technical recruiter would have taken your call and at least dug into your experience with it a bit. For all they know you live and breathe OpenCV in your personal time as a hobby.

BlazinBlue88 posted...

They clearly were looking to find someone to fit the requirements HR sent over to them line by line which proves their lack of tech knowledge. A legit technical recruiter would have taken your call and at least dug into your experience with it a bit. For all they know you live and breathe OpenCV in your personal time as a hobby.

Thanks lol, this honestly helped me feel better about it appreciate the perspective

TeaMilk posted...

Thanks lol, this honestly helped me feel better about it appreciate the perspective

No problem. Honestly it's the blind leading the blind. I'm sure you know HR isn't technically sound either and often they are the ones writing up these requirements to toss over to the recruiters.