By Jeff Altman, Big Game Hunter
I was a third party recruiter for more than 40 years.
I remember recruiting an IT project manager position in Texas and receiving a call from a second third party recruits with a follow-up on a resume he sent to me. The resume was for a non-technical product manager who did not live nowhere near my client, and of course I was not interested in the referral.
“Hello! Did you see on the resume I sent? “
“Yes, and I wasn’t interested.”
“But he is a product manager who wants to work in a project manager role in this city,” I was told.
“Should I care? I don’t see why it makes a difference. Their experience does not fit what my client wants, and beyond that is all you say is irrelevant. “
“But. . . “
That was the last word I heard because I was hanging on.
I have heard stories of woe from many job hunters talking about being bludgeoned by a recruiter to go on an interview for a job they are neither qualified for nor interested in.
“You never know unless you go,” you explained that they were told. Another candidate said they were beaten by someone who said, “They are a good company. You really like the employment manager. “
“But the salary is $ 25000 less than what I earn now, I am not actively looking for a job, and the position is at least one level down from where I am and possibly two.”
“But they are a good company!”
I apologize for “the poorly listed people” in my previous profession.
There are so many wonderful people who really try to master their craft and provide good service to both institutional customers and job hunters.
Still, the bad experience that employers and job hunters experience is real, just as the complaints I wrote about in previous articles about resume spammed for recruiters and people who never return phone calls to recruiters after sending them their resume are also true.
I will also acknowledge that I sometimes make mistakes. Words are wrong spelled in my notes or in my ezine sometimes that comes through a spell check (or I forget to spell check). I am sometimes confused by the time zones people are in. I handle a huge schedule for myself and am sometimes confused about where you are or confuse you with another. It doesn’t make me “into an idiot” and worthy of condemnation.
The incompetent recruiters trying to hit a square stick in a square hole are worthy of your and my contempt. They turn up many of us and make others distrust them in my profession trying to do well and work hard to help both sides to get what they want.
Let’s meet and not reward the incompetent and look for the good to work with,
© The Big Game Hunter, Inc. Asheville, NC 2015, 2021, 2024
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