When I’m Being Approached By A Recruiter…

I, if they’re cold pitching a position, expect a certain amount of information to be shared:

• position title? (e.g. Game-play programmer)
• seniority? (junior, mid, senior, lead);
• location? (city/country);
• on-site, work from home or a combination of the previous?
• primary language and platform?
• expected tech stack?
• expected experience?
• (optional) salary range?

You can compact it in one sentence: “I’m looking for a senior game-play programmer with 5 games released on consoles, in Berlin/Germany, using C#/Unity and experience with an awesome 3rd party obscure library”.

What I receive instead:

“I have a position that requires programming language X, for a great company!”

You people have to do better than that 😉