Do you have to be a parasite to work in a recruitment.

Tidyweb

Just curious what the answer is?

Delancey

No .... but it helps

Seriously though , opinions on different recruiters vary hugely . If people get a job with a recruiter then they sing their praises and if they don't land a job........

Tidyweb

Just in general.

I would say 1 in 10 are professional in ther interactions with people

Mrs OBumble

Do you have to be a parasite to work as a doctor or nurse? I mean like, your incentive is to keep people sick, so they still need your services ....

MrStuffins

JustMary wrote: »

Do you have to be a parasite to work as a doctor or nurse? I mean like, your incentive is to keep people sick, so they still need your services ....

Jesus!

Bandana boy

1 in 10 is a fair bit of the mark imo
During the boom there was a fair few shysters making a living in recruitment.
While the skill level varies greatly today ,that has changed greatly.

The thing to remember is that unless you are at a very high competency level in your field (top 1-3%) then you are the commodity not the customer.Each and every recruiter would love to place everybody who comes into contact with them ,but they have both more candidates than positions and have to keep the quality at a certain level to get repeat business from their real customers.
If a customer/company shows little interest in you ,then their interest in you drops to zero.In an ideal world they would be far more humane at following up with candidates who have not made the grade.The fact is the volume they deal with and the fact this has no real customer impact or any effect on how they are remunerated means it is a task that often gets done poorly or not at all.

If you are experiencing a problem with 9 in 10 recruiters the problem probably lies with you.Areas to address ,your CV, your cover letter ,your interview technique ,your qualifications and the level of job you are applying for.Now that reads pretty harsh but I am afraid a recruiter is not going to come along and solve your employment problems.

Eoin

I find these loaded questions quite silly. Yes, they can be frustrating to deal with, but as Bandana boy says: the candidate is not their customer. They work for the employer who is trying to fill a role.

It's not a great analogy, but a retailer is not going to spend a huge amount of time holding the hand of a supplier whose product isn't selling.

Mr. Loverman

It's a sales job like any other sales job. I expect sales people to be full of ****. Hence recruiters tend not to disappoint me.

seamus

Remember the new adage:

"If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold."

This is as true with recruiters as it is with facebook and google.

Recruitment's problem is that for every decent person who does the job because they enjoy it and treat candidates as people, there are another two people who treat the job as a sales job and couldn't care less if anyone's happy so long as they make the sale.

I know someone who used to work in recruitment, enjoyed the role specifically, but everything around it made it **** - colleagues and management who would happily sell you down the river to steal your commission, candidates arranging interviews and not bothering to turn up and clients who would hold the recruiter personally responsible if the company hired a crap candidate.

donkey balls

What I've noticed is some recruitment agencies well out of their depth regarding the adverts they have on job sites for certain sectors,Just reading the job specs giving they havent a clue what their looking for and a lot of them are sales orrientated. without field experience in the sectors they recruit for.