The technical HR Recruiter's thoughts (Score 1)

I know I am not speaking for all HR individuals, nor am I about to try. However, being a technical recruiter working for a technical staffing agency, let me just say that there are those of us out there that know technical, that ARE technical people. In fact, I get sick of taking the bad rap for poor hr departments. If you're worried that an HR person is going to misrepresent you, talk to them, ask them what they know, get a feeling for how technical they are. I think myself as well as a number of my colleagues can handle a couple of qualifying questions coming our way. In fact, I'd prefer it to having technical people presume that because we work HR we can't be technical people. The same way that it is my responsiblity to understand the difference between java and javascript as a recruiter, it is a technical professional's job to determine the difference for themselves between technical recuiters who know technical, and technical recruiters who know buzz words, and then decide who they want to represent them.