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The answer to this question shouldn’t surprise you. But if it does, this is a message that you need to learn.
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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 is a leadership and career coach who worked as a recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.
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Recruiters stay in a job about as long as a second hand car salesman so the
turnover makes it easy to keep hitting them every year. Most of them are
clueless alas.
Interviewing/delivering.. no agency pays for your travel any more so there
is no dime to be on any more. You get good at interviewing by being hosed
over and over again, until you get smart and demand to be treated as a
human.
Long term.. It is a resume stain to be represented by agencies that are
known by their reek, and anyone working too long for companies that are
known for their mediocre products will attest to that (attitudes can flip
overnight into negative territory after say the dot com “crash”).
Cruiters that send you to in person interviews that did not do a thorough
phone screen times two (in house and client SME) are killing your wallet
not theirs (“since you’re not working I’m not wasting your time” – you’ll
hear that all the time)
Recruiters stay in a job about as long as a second hand car salesman so the turnover makes it easy to keep hitting them every year. Most of them are clueless alas.
Interviewing/delivering.. no agency pays for your travel any more so there is no dime to be on any more. You get good at interviewing by being hosed over and over again, until you get smart and demand to be treated as a human.
Long term.. It is a resume stain to be represented by agencies that are known by their reek, and anyone working too long for companies that are known for their mediocre products will attest to that (attitudes can flip overnight into negative territory after say the dot com “crash”).
Cruiters that send you to in person interviews that did not do a thorough phone screen times two (in house and client SME) are killing your wallet not theirs (“since you’re not working I’m not wasting your time” – you’ll hear that all the time)
Recruiters stay in a job about as long as a second hand car salesman so the turnover makes it easy to keep hitting them every year. Most of them are clueless alas.
Interviewing/delivering.. no agency pays for your travel any more so there is no dime to be on any more. You get good at interviewing by being hosed over and over again, until you get smart and demand to be treated as a human.
Long term.. It is a resume stain to be represented by agencies that are known by their reek, and anyone working too long for companies that are known for their mediocre products will attest to that (attitudes can flip overnight into negative territory after say the dot com “crash”).
Cruiters that send you to in person interviews that did not do a thorough phone screen times two (in house and client SME) are killing your wallet not theirs (“since you’re not working I’m not wasting your time” – you’ll hear that all the time)
And, if you think recruiters have a bad job history, take a look at HR people, technology people, accountants, engineers, heck everyone! No one has the job history that they once did and that is what I encourage people (and you, if I am not mistaken) encourage people to do–look out for their careers.
And, if you think recruiters have a bad job history, take a look at HR people, technology people, accountants, engineers, heck everyone! No one has the job history that they once did and that is what I encourage people (and you, if I am not mistaken) encourage people to do–look out for their careers.
most salespeople have escalating targets that they eventually miss and they bail before they get fired. the only way to get to the top is to build your own practice using people that yet don’t realize their worth before they wake up. or you become a front-end for indian outsourcers, but that adds 5 layers of crazy.
Engineers stay in a job as long as the company carries you as much as you carry them. there are a few professions you go in to get a career, but keep in mind the word career is the gravy you put on top of all your jobs to make it look is was an upward game ..
most salespeople have escalating targets that they eventually miss and they bail before they get fired. the only way to get to the top is to build your own practice using people that yet don’t realize their worth before they wake up. or you become a front-end for indian outsourcers, but that adds 5 layers of crazy.
Engineers stay in a job as long as the company carries you as much as you carry them. there are a few professions you go in to get a career, but keep in mind the word career is the gravy you put on top of all your jobs to make it look is was an upward game ..