A headhunter contacted me today about a job...

[Deja Q]

A Technical Support Specialist position for a "major corporation".

There'd be a lot of driving involved.

At what point do I ask the name of the corporation? I want to know more about the company doing the hiring and see if I'd be a fit.

I love my current job. Well, most of it, but the atmosphere the management is engendering is sickening and I'm starting to want out. :-( Heck, other coworkers have resigned and some of them have had life-threatening illnesses thanks to the poisonous work environment/morale situation. Of course, my job still has good pay and good benefits, unless this job pays well then I'm stuck at where I'm at...

Should I contact them?

[HornBuckler]

1. Yeah, Why Not?

You've Got Nothing To Lose And Everything To Gain... Can't Hurt
You Can Always Tell 'Em Where To Go.

[markdd]

2. Doesn't hurt to listen

To what he's got to say. Eventually he'll tell you about the company, locations and products. Let the company tell you about benefits. Its your life.

[hackwriter]

3. Be careful....

A lot of headhunters are recruiting right now for 6-7 month consulting gigs for high-tech jobs in Fortune 500 companies. Guess what this takes us up to? You guessed it: the election. This is companies that support ShrubCo artificially inflating the job numbers until after the election.

If you have a full-time job already, be very sure that this one you're considering isn't just temporary.