Recruitment Companies

Saint Sonner

Can anyone help me understand something?

I am currently hunting for a new job in the finance world. So I am getting increasingly frustrated with recruitment companies. I see a job on Irishjobs.ie I look thorough what the job is and see if I have the experience and essential/desirable criteria. I genuinely only apply for jobs that are suitable to me but the vast majority are through recruitment agencies.

Obviously you will get a call from them at some stage – a lot of the time I will get a call with someone saying “let’s have a chat the job you actually applied for has been filled but we’ll definitely have something for you” etc.

First off I took their word on this but something has made me wonder recently as I set up the alert function on Irishjobs.ie on my phone to let me know when new jobs are posted in a certain area.

So this morning I got alerts to say “new jobs added” so I applied for one of the jobs added which when I read through appeared to be new as I hadn’t seen the criteria or job description before in my previous searches. It happened to be from a recruitment company who I had applied through before.

So I get a call from one of the recruitment companies employees who I spoke to before and she had said I have your CV and I am currently trying to find suitable work for you based on your cv. “Fair enough” I said – “I just see a job that I think suits me and I decide to apply based on the description.” She told me then that the 3 jobs that where advertised where gone so I said I was asking out of interest but if I’m getting alerts about new jobs posted this morning why is that.

She gave me some vague answer so I just settled with that as I wasn’t there to give her agro I just wanted to understand how this works – but I still don’t!

Can anyone shed any light?

reallyrose

I work in recruitment. I can't speak for that particular case but when I'm the one saying "that role is gone" one of the following has probably happened.

1) I refreshed my job ads and the one for the job that's gone has refreshed too.
2) The client has said they don't want any more CV's (I refresh my job, check my email and argh - job has been filled elsewhere, client has 10 CV's on their desk and don't want to see more, job has moved to interview so "please hold off for now")
3) I'm awaiting an offer for one of my candidates but I'm fairly sure they'll turn it down so I'll be back to sourcing shortly.

Some of the sites hold on to job adverts for quite a while, I've had responses to job ads where the job has been gone for 2 weeks or more. We close off the ads on our side and they just sort of ... hang around...
Some websites only allow us to remove an advert after a couple of days too.
(IrishJobs is one of those, actually)

Saint Sonner

Thanks for the explanation - can be really frustrating.

I thought that setting up the alert with Irish Jobs meant that I would only see new jobs and not refreshed ones - that seems to be a downfall.

reallyrose

Saint Sonner wrote: »

Thanks for the explanation - can be really frustrating.

I thought that setting up the alert with Irish Jobs meant that I would only see new jobs and not refreshed ones - that seems to be a downfall.

I appreciate that. It's frustrating for us too when a job suddenly closes that we've put lots of work into!

The fact that there's other possibilities is great for you though, sounds like your skills are in demand right now.
When you get those calls, try to take them as "oh cool, additional jobs" rather than "where'd that one job go?"

Recruiters rarely advertise everything we have going on. There's limited job slots to go around, jobs that need a really quick response so job applications would take too long.

I'm not sure how Irish Jobs alerts work. I have alerts set up myself and I see "new jobs" on the list that have been there for days!

Mc Love

The thing about IrishJobs is a lot of the jobs posted are never removed. I've found that if you go to the recruiters website and the job isnt there, that its an old position.

I find Indeed to be the best for job hunting