Jobspring Partners

I used to live in California and decided to move to the DC area. I used Jobspring to find a job and since I was trying to find a job where I didn’t live I found them to be invaluable. They set up all the phone screens and interviews so that when I flew out here I had everything lined up. They were very quick to respond to questions and knew the industry and area well. I worked with Gabby, Del and Ashley so I highly recommend them.

I have worked with Jobsprings for a while. My first foray was in 2009 and I was able to get an offer which I was happy with as a salaried employee. Communication was great but the distance was far and I lasted a few months on the job.
Over the last few years I got a call from different recruiters from jobsprings to see if i was in the market. Nothing that was a fit ever came but eventually the timing was right and I got an interview at a type of job I was looking for. Again its all about communication and setting expectations. I was not offered the job but I was glad I was working with them because it seemed like they want to match candidates as well as positions.
It didnt seem like resume pushing to see what sticks. I got another interview and this time everything went smoothly and I have accepted an offer at a salary I wanted in a great location. In all if you are going to work with recruiting companies, jobsprings is one of the top ones around here. Believe me I have worked with atleast a dozen of them; some good, some not so good and Jobsprings is very good.

This was actually the first recruitment company that got me a job! I love where I’m working, and my recruiter was a pleasure to work with. Sad to see the other 1 star reviews… but maybe things have changed recently. Also nice to see JobSpring very active on social media and networking events. Keep up the good work over there guys.

I moved to NOVA from southwest Michigan, I interned for a company in Reston last summer and really like the area. There is not a ton of InfoSec opportunities back home for an entry level recent college grad. Searched on my own in MI for awhile and got nothing from it. Moved to NOVA and was contacted by Dan after a couple of months in the area. He set me up with an interview the next day and made sure I was ready for the interview and knew the right things to say.
I got a call two days later and Dan told me they wanted me and asked what my salary range was. Ended up with a great starting point for my career at a salary that was much higher than what I was expecting. Really couldn’t ask for more out of him or the team.
Within that 2 months of searching I worked with a few different recruiting firms, none delivered. I was also told I didn’t have enough experience for anything other than a help desk job and that I should stop looking for anything else. Was also told by a recruiting firm that they place a lot of IT professional, turns out when I get there they are just a temp agency and really have never placed anyone in the IT field but they wanted to start with me (complete waste of time).
Long story short I have used a few different firms and JobSpring was the only one that delivered. Dan and the team at JobSpring got me what I wanted and for more than what I wanted.

98% of the recruiters in the DC/​Maryland/​Virginia area are worthless, and the ones at JobSpring are no exception. I’ve worked with them on two occasions: once in 2012, and again this year. I came in and met 4 – 5 recruiters and was told they had a lot of opportunities in my field, blah blah blah. In 2012, the recruiter I worked with was not only inept but also rude. I had a phone meeting scheduled once (on my birthday, no less) and the client never called me, so I went out of town with my family as we had planned. I tried to call my recruiter to tell him what happened but he didn’t answer. He finally called me back 2 hours later and asked if I could do the phone interview right then, and I of course said no; I was in a loud restaurant, it was my birthday, and he should have called me back immediately instead of 2 hours later. He then got snippy and asked why I couldn’t talk to the client for just a few minutes. I told him the client is welcome to try again any day the rest of that week. I never got a call back. That recruiter also never found me another opportunity again.
Fast forward to 2013. An entirely new team is working there now, and once again I came in to meet all of the recruiters and hear about all of the (imaginary) jobs they had for me. The recruiter I worked with this this was actually really nice, if not a bit lazy. I sent him a job I thought I was a great fit for, and he eventually followed up with a contact he had there, but it turned out the position posted on their website was totally inaccurate, which was not JobSpring’s fault of course. But what made me angry was that I have not heard from this recruiter ever since. I called and sent multiple emails — nothing. So I emailed his boss directly (whom I had meet at the meeting), and she of course gave the usual «We have lots of jobs coming down the line, we’ll reach out to you soon.» Since then, nothing. As a last-​ditch effort, I applied on the JobSpring website for a job that was definitely a good fit for me, and it was posted by one of the other recruiters that I had met. After about a week, I hadn’t heard anything back so I called her directly to find out what happened. It turned out that the client decided to hire someone internally. Why didn’t the recruiter tell me this? Because it was — this is a direct quote — «not a priority.» Wow.
You would think I would have learned my lesson from last year, but I decided to give them another chance since I really needed a job. Never again.

I worked with Jobspring a couple of years ago and they were OK. They got me an offer and were pushing me to accept it which made me uncomfortable so I did not accept it.
Fast forward a couple of years and things seem to have gotten worse. The lead recruiter was really pushy and downright unprofessional. I refused to give him my previous salaries and he tried to make me feel bad by asking me if I do not trust him, blah blah. Then he asked me to come in to meet the other recruiters so I did. When I arrived at their office, he started to discuss my resume and harass me about my previous salaries again. This crap could have been handled over the phone. Instead, I wasted nearly 2 hours of my day to go to their office and discuss my resume. I did meet the other recruiters as I was walking out of the door but only briefly. The lead recruiter just had a very pushy and rude demeanor. You’d think he would have realized that he should have treated me better considering that I already have a good job and can hold out for the right opportunity.
In short, I will most likely never talk to this company again. I consider the bridge burnt.

I stumbled onto Del’s plate pretty randomly, in fact I didn’t even know I was applying through a recruiter. I was pretty nervous, I was looking for the second job of my career and had heard some horror stories about recruiters changing resumes, overselling candidates, etc…
Del was competent, frank, funny and very understanding of my hesitation. He spent tons of time discussion options and got me an interview in 2 days. He checked in afterwards, with both myself and the new company’s HR rep, to see how everything went. After getting notice that I was wanted by my new company Del went into negotiations hard. He got me more salary than I would ever have thought to ask.
If I’m looking for another career here in the DC region, he’s my first call.