Tech Recruiter with over a decade of recruiting experience. 1k placements & $20M profit billed. Insights on careers, job search memes. | @juicebox_work
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When the HR Ladies hear you prefer a cash bonus instead of a pizza party
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Manager: "Everyone behave at the happy hour. One drink max."
The new intern, 12 drinks deep:
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I wonder how these two from the marketing department climbed up the corporate ladder so fast
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HR: "Don't worry, all of your complaints are 100% anonymous"
Your boss the next day:
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You think LinkedIn doesn't matter?
My clients disagree, hard.
Let me explain.
Virtually every client I work with requires a LinkedIn to supplement your resume.
There are way more fake candidates out there than you realize. People straight up fabricating experience with different job titles, companies, and dates. Any technical recruiter or hiring manager can verify this. We see it constantly. It's a lot harder to get away with it if you have a linkedin.
Even the innocent stuff gets you flagged. You tailor your resume heavy on Python for a role, but your LinkedIn shows all Java. They'll assume you ran the JD through ChatGPT and don't actually have the experience.
Is it fair? Maybe not, but it's a harsh reality.
The bad eggs did this.
Candidates who lied their way through the process wasting everyone's time made companies stop trusting resumes alone.
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For context: I work mostly with banks on hiring SWEs but also other F100s (healthcare, telco) and some startups
More here: open.substack.com/pub/random…
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The last thing you see before "your role has been eliminated"
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Almost halftime of Game 4 and I don't care who you root for but this officiating is unwatchable.
Game 3 was bad. Game 4 is somehow worse. It’s not just Knicks fans saying it. The announcers even are calling it out. All of social media even agrees.
Wemby and SGA are your two best young stars and they're building legacies nobody will respect.
How is this good for the league?
Nobody involved has any shame.
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The beauty of using @juicebox_work agents:
While I pour a glass of cab sav for my wife and I and tune in to watch the Knicks win game 4, I have five agents sourcing for me tonight.
When I log in tomorrow, I will have a total of 125 candidates in my inbox of qualified candidates for me to reach out to, saving me hours of work.
LET'S
GO
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Manager: "Can you turn your camera on?"
Me:
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Recruiting for AI Engineers in 2026 feels exactly like recruiting for SWEs in 2021.
We all know the overall tech job market is down pretty bad. We're already at ~150k layoffs this year.
But AI Engineering is on a completely different planet right now. Virtually every industry is hiring right now.
Some numbers that jump out to me:
• 56% wage premium for AI skilled workers. Companies are paying you a premium just because you know how to work with these tools.
• 7x growth in demand for AI fluency. It's the fastest growing skill requirement period.
• 39% of skills will be outdated by 2030. You have 4 years before nearly half of what you know today is worthless.
I'm not just seeing this on X or from news headlines, this is what's actually going on in my day job.
I don't recruit for tech companies or startups, I recruit for Banks aka the most regulated, slowest moving, risk averse industry on earth.
They're hiring AI Engineers as much as any other skillset, in some cases more.
The 2021 SWE market was a gold rush where anyone with a bootcamp certificate could name their price. We all know how that ended.
This time I it's different. The demand is real but so is the skills gap since this stuff is still so relatively new.
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When a Microsoft Teams notification wakes you up from your 1:45pm nap
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Harsh truth:
The job market for middle managers is absolutely cooked.
Companies are flattening org charts and killing layers. They want less decision makers and more doers. You're the first name on the chopping block.
So you do the logical thing. You swallow your pride and apply for IC roles. You take a step back and get your hands dirty again.
And that's when you realize you're not just blocked from moving up, you're blocked from moving anywhere.
Let's pretend you're a 45-50 year old Manager that applies to an IC job.
Here's what hiring teams actually see when your resume lands on their desk:
1. You'll question the 35 year old you report to or quietly try to take their job.
2. You've been hands off for years. Can you even do the work anymore? Past your prime.
3. This is a bridge job. You'll leave for an EM role the second one opens up.
So you're stuck.
Too senior to be trusted as an IC. Too expensive to justify the risk.
The exact experience that got you promoted is now the reason nobody will hire you.
Brutal.
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I wrote more about it here: randomrecruiter.substack.com…
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Me asking for a cost of living adjustment while the CEO just bought his 4th yacht
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The HR Lady when you ask for a raise after the company posted record profits
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My daughters will not be going to college because their daddy bought tickets to game 3
Go Knicks!
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The recruiter when you ask when you'll hear back after 5 rounds and a take home test
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