Day: December 16, 2016

Why Won’t a Recruiter Tell Me Who Their Client Is? | Job Search Radio

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They want to meet with me to discuss the job and won’t tell me who their client is.

On this show, I discuss 3 reasons why recruiters won’t tell you the client this.

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Here’s a question I received:

“What does it mean when a recruiter won’t tell me the name of the company that they are representing?”

“They want to meet with me 1st before talking in detail about the job.”

I’m not going to talk about ethics here because, even though you may think it is unethical, it is actually a non-issue.  Here are the issues from a recruiters perspective:

1.  You may attempt to circumvent them before you have a chance to talk with them about the job.  By circumventing, you take the information you’ve been given and apply directly to the firm. They are out $20,000, $25,000 $30,000 $50,000, $75,000 $100,000 in fees, all because, frankly, there are some people out there (I’m not saying you) who are swine.  Who are awful contemptible people, you think it is smart to steal things from others and cheat them out of what they rightly deserve.

2.  Another issue is control.  The desire to meet with you is indicative of control.  They want to control the situation. They are between you and your client.  They want to see you 1st and assess you 1st before revealing anything further.  That is 1/2 step down from. “I won’t tell you anything because I’m afraid you will steal it from me.”  They want to meet with you and discuss it in person. After they have a chance to evaluate you.

3.  Another thing is, what’s in it for them?  Perhaps their client has a brand that is not a positive and they can speak with you in person excite you about the job and then reveal it is this firm that has a pretty bad reputation in the market area, but has a unique opportunity.

Those are a few reasons why recruiters do it.  There are many more but these are going to be the top 3 reasons why recruiters don’t reveal things.

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You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.
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Why Are Most Recruiters Unhelpful? (VIDEO)

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Why is her most recruiters unhelpful and tend to constantly ignore emails from applicants in the interview process? From my experience, recruiters always say something along the lines of, “Don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions,” but 90% of the time if it is not something they want to know from you such as your availability for interviews, it will just ignore your question or email.

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The question for today is:

“Why are most recruiters unhelpful and tend to ignore emails from applicants during the interview process?

From my experience recruiters always say something along the lines of, ‘Don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.’ 90% of the time. It’s only when they want to know something from you like your availability for interviews when you will hear from them. Otherwise, they will just ignore your question or email.”

You have to understand the job of a recruiter.

I always start off at this basic point:

How much are you paying them? Probably nothing.

How much is an employer paying them? Employers are paying their fee. Thus, they are being paid to find people who will fit a job requirement and are qualified to do what employer needs to have done. Everything else is window dressing.

So you have questions. They are not paid to answer questions. Coaches are.

As a result, you have this mistaken notion that they are working for you, or that the 2 of you are working together to find you a job. When that couldn’t be furthest from the truth.

Those clinic phrases like, “Don’t hesitate to reach out,” are part of the seduction that recruiters used to help build relationship. The relationship is designed to engender trust by you (which obviously isn’t occurring here. That is the theory behind it), engender a relationship that fosters trust so that by the time a job offer is extended by the employer, you are less resistant to their “closing techniques” that will cause them to earn a fee.

They are not there to answer your questions. They are not social workers or counselors. They are there to recruit people to fill positions, fill them, and coincidentally make you happy.

Before you start replying and saying, “Without me, they don’t receive their fee,.” that is absolutely true. However, there are a lot more of you than there are of employers willing to pay the fee to them. Recruiters always believe that they can get a replacement person because they have proven it time and time again.

You, on the other hand, want that one job. As a result, recruiters are not particularly responsive if the client is not asking to meet with you or if you’re gonna take that advice or information to get a different job the one they are representing. What would they help you? Their job is to deliver you to their client, not help you get a job,

The confusion of the question comes from the mistaken notion that they should be responsive to you. That’s not their job. A recruiters there to fill positions with companies and coincidentally coach you into getting that job with their client. Period. In doing so, they earn a fee from that employer.

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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.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

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