Be good against the recruiter: Care and Feeding Counseling

By Jeff Altman, Big Game Hunter

In 1972, I began my career as a recruiter. For the past five years I have been a career and leader coach.

My coach, the man I referred to as “Swami” because he knew so many things that it seemed almost mysterious to me, taught me the three jokes in the agency’s business.

1. How can you tell you that an applicant is lying to you?
2. Their lips move.
3. How can you tell that a client is lying to you?
4. Their lips move.
5. How can you tell that a recruiter is lying to you?
6. Their lips move.

I’ll be polite.

Everyone who is involved in the job search process is posturing to the greatest advantage. You are. The companies you are interviewing with. The recruiter, search staff or agent you are talking to.

You can try to find a job without using services from a recruiter and many of you will join companies that will hire you without using one.

But there is no need to close the door to use their services.

But they don’t have any jobs for me!

Maybe you contacted a company that didn’t fill in jobs for what you do? Maybe their clients have no positions for people like you right now. It’s not their fault.

But they never come back to me?

If a recruiter came back to anyone who wants them to report to them about what’s going on or isn’t going on, they would never have time to do what you really want them to do. . . Find a job for you to interview with!

They don’t know what they’re talking about!

Maybe you talked to the beginner in the office who doesn’t know what they’re doing. Maybe you’re wrong in your assessment.

Either way, recruiters have access to companies that hire, have conditions that can give you entrance and can control all the logistics of your job search calendar.

A skilled recruiter can negotiate your compensation for you to take the head off a hard negotiation, so when you join a new company, you arrive with “a halo” with pleasant expectations.

Don’t want to have a good relationship with connected people like these who can help you now and in the coming years? Here are some simple to follow rules that can help you throughout your career.

1. Recruiters are people who are not slaves to be ordered or shouted when you want to throw a rage attack.

People sometimes forget that they emailed a resume to me and sent hate post about spam when I respond to them.

Others call to complain to me over something that another recruiter did or did not.

Whatever the offense that recruiter committed, keep your mood.

Have you ever been shouted by your boss? Would you have preferred that they talk to you in civilian tones about what went wrong?

Main hunters, recruiters, employment agents, executive recruiters. . . Whatever you want to refer to them. . . are people

And they are people with databases that give them long memories.

More important is it when you make a mistake, do you expect compassion or forgiveness?

Why are you so unwilling to give it to another person who is just trying to help you find a job?

2. Remember who pays in the transaction.

Companies pay for recruiters to find people to fill out jobs. You don’t pay for recruiters to find a position for you.

They are paid to locate, assess, refer and cause actions that will lead to a position that is completed.

To do well, they have to mix the client’s needs, desires and wishes with a job hunter.

Recruiters don’t work for you

They work with you and for their business customers.

3. The only decision a recruiter makes is whether to refer you to their client.

Recruiters will not get you employed.

You do.

Their job is to find out if you are qualified to fill a job that a client has defined for them and whether your personality would fit into the client’s culture.

The client defines the requirement and if they make too many errors, the client will stop calling those who cost them an opportunity to make money.

The first thing you can do to get a recruiter to call you is to send a resume that actually fits the job they are trying to fill.

Have you heard the saying, “The broken watch is right twice a day?”

I foam thousands of resume a week. I do not read most of them because the candidate has done nothing to demonstrate in their resume that they fit the basic qualifications of the position. Instead, they turn the same resume to any job and every recruiter for every other position they read.

Don’t just write a cover letter that tells the recruiter that you fit the requirements for the job and then send a resume that does not show you did, tailor your resume to make it clear that you fit the requirements for the job.

Make the care obvious!

4. Use the message area for your E email (or a cover letter if you are faxing or sending a resume) to indicate how long and where recently you have performed the feature the company needs to have performed.

If the ad you are reading asks for 6 years of experience performing a particular feature, tell them the amount of experience you have performed this skill. Do not leave it to a coincidence.

The recruiter who reads your resume probably has hundreds of resume to read and evaluate.

If in doubt, most of us do not have time to call to ask if you have the two or three lack of skills that you know you have but you have not put your resume.

And the recruiters who have time to call will not be in the industry for a long time because they are wasting so much time contacting people who do not fit the job they will fail.

5. Track every resume you send out

You will submit many different cver specially designed for each option. Unless your memory is exquisite, you need a way to instantly know which resume you have sent to the company so you can tailor your answers to the job.

It doesn’t matter if you are using paper, your mobile phone or other electronic device. Just be sure that when you are asked about your experience, you are able to answer them and the context of the job they are recruiting.

Unless you can do that, either don’t answer the call or if you answer that, let them know you want to call them back. . . and offer a time when you call them.

6. When you talk to a recruiter about the job they are trying to fill, ask them what it was in your resume or background that made them want to talk to you.

Asking this question gives you an insight into the recruiter’s thought process and what they are looking for in the way of concrete skills.

Also, be aware that they are listening to and evaluating your soft skills:

Confidence,

Character,

Chemistry

Charisma.

These attributes add everyone to trust

7. Try to develop a relationship with the recruiter.

Skip “The Elevator Pitch.” They won’t hear that.

Although relationships take time to build, one with a recruiter can benefit you throughout your career.

If you treat a recruiter like another portguard, you will be treated as the rude, disrespectful person you are.

If you treat them like a person if you help them if they ask you for a reference to another search if you call them between job searches to check in or tell them to hire that it is going on with your company, will they be encouraged to help you.

8. If you ask the recruiter when they will get back to you, listen carefully to their answers.

An honest recruiter will tell you that they will be back in touch (via E -mail or by phone) with you when they have something useful to report.

When I know when I want to talk to my client, I can offer someone a vague idea of ​​when I get back in touch.

Beyond that, everything else is bull.

9. Send a Taknotat.

I don’t know how it happened, but good manners have disappeared in our (American) culture.

As a result, a taknota is always favorably noticeable because no one makes them anymore.

A quick e -mail that thanks the recruiter for their time repeats the points you did about your fit for the role and that you look forward to meeting with their client goes a long way to stand out positively.

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