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Here is my no BS answer this question.
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Do you really think employers are trying to help you?
You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.
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Nice strawman but mostly false.
You mean nothing to either the cruiter nor the company – what that means is
that you can be used to soothe or handle the payback over a perceived
slight. I found out after an onsite interview that the contractor they
placed two weeks prior had walked off the job, and that the company was
livid. I wrote it off as a nice test interview and blackballed the agency.
Recruiters are routinely pressed into service to get H1-B’s in the door,
and you’ve been used.
Folks, there was a time when recruiters really did a bang up
Job. When HR was too slow, not functional, or just didn’t serve the
business, but those days are over. The contract for hire system is here to
stay and face it, you can spam a HR ATS system for all companies in your
speciality with a few key clicks. Chances are a job posted for more than a
month will never be filled, and no amount of recruiting is gonna fix that.
My advice is to dump recruiters, or get them to reveal their source, and
then apply to the company directly. Chances are your current company will
get inundated with resumes once you reveal who you work for – recruiters
are salespeople not priests
Nice strawman but mostly false.
You mean nothing to either the cruiter nor the company – what that means is that you can be used to soothe or handle the payback over a perceived slight. I found out after an onsite interview that the contractor they placed two weeks prior had walked off the job, and that the company was livid. I wrote it off as a nice test interview and blackballed the agency. Recruiters are routinely pressed into service to get H1-B’s in the door, and you’ve been used.
Folks, there was a time when recruiters really did a bang up
Job. When HR was too slow, not functional, or just didn’t serve the business, but those days are over. The contract for hire system is here to stay and face it, you can spam a HR ATS system for all companies in your speciality with a few key clicks. Chances are a job posted for more than a month will never be filled, and no amount of recruiting is gonna fix that. My advice is to dump recruiters, or get them to reveal their source, and then apply to the company directly. Chances are your current company will get inundated with resumes once you reveal who you work for – recruiters are salespeople not priests
Nice strawman but mostly false.
You mean nothing to either the cruiter nor the company – what that means is that you can be used to soothe or handle the payback over a perceived slight. I found out after an onsite interview that the contractor they placed two weeks prior had walked off the job, and that the company was livid. I wrote it off as a nice test interview and blackballed the agency. Recruiters are routinely pressed into service to get H1-B’s in the door, and you’ve been used.
Folks, there was a time when recruiters really did a bang up
Job. When HR was too slow, not functional, or just didn’t serve the business, but those days are over. The contract for hire system is here to stay and face it, you can spam a HR ATS system for all companies in your speciality with a few key clicks. Chances are a job posted for more than a month will never be filled, and no amount of recruiting is gonna fix that. My advice is to dump recruiters, or get them to reveal their source, and then apply to the company directly. Chances are your current company will get inundated with resumes once you reveal who you work for – recruiters are salespeople not priests
+Maurice, you are projecting a lot into the question that was asked. It doesn’t offer enough info to be specific. I don’t disagree with your comments here and on other of my videos that employees have become commodities, However, your suggestion that information be stolen from recruiters is despicable. There are no circumstances where that should ever be the first course of action. Job hunters don’t want to be treated badly yet you recommend that they go out and proactively treat an absolute stranger who has not done anything to harm them, treat them like vermin and steal money from their families. I draw the line on recommending theft in any firm.
+Maurice, you are projecting a lot into the question that was asked. It doesn’t offer enough info to be specific. I don’t disagree with your comments here and on other of my videos that employees have become commodities, However, your suggestion that information be stolen from recruiters is despicable. There are no circumstances where that should ever be the first course of action. Job hunters don’t want to be treated badly yet you recommend that they go out and proactively treat an absolute stranger who has not done anything to harm them, treat them like vermin and steal money from their families. I draw the line on recommending theft in any firm.
Jeff Altman not vermin, merely turn the tables on them. I’d gladly name names, the examples are just too thick. I’ve had several agencies burn me at clients that were scrupulous in the past just by them getting resumes with their superimposed letterhead into the hiring manager first. Never knew they were there, they just plucked my resume off dice. So spare me the fake pearl
Clutch. I have found that cruiters will open up all registers on emotions and it’s just a ploy. Google’s practices on using cruiters has fundamentally changed the market, and for the better.
Oh, there’s this delicious piece floating around about how multi-level recruiters treat each other. Couldn’t believe it until I watched Grifters one day.
Nice try Jeff 🙂
Jeff Altman not vermin, merely turn the tables on them. I’d gladly name names, the examples are just too thick. I’ve had several agencies burn me at clients that were scrupulous in the past just by them getting resumes with their superimposed letterhead into the hiring manager first. Never knew they were there, they just plucked my resume off dice. So spare me the fake pearl
Clutch. I have found that cruiters will open up all registers on emotions and it’s just a ploy. Google’s practices on using cruiters has fundamentally changed the market, and for the better.
Oh, there’s this delicious piece floating around about how multi-level recruiters treat each other. Couldn’t believe it until I watched Grifters one day.
Nice try Jeff 🙂