Recruiter Psychosis
Interesting piece of self-imagery here.
I don’t think recruiters are generally hated. I think ‘not respected’ would be closer to what most people feel.
There are many reasons recruiters are not respected and most of them are related to the fact that around 80% of them aren’t very good their jobs and know next to nothing about recruitment. A lot of them are just administrators on steroids.
What I personally dislike most about a lot of recruiters is that…
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Hiring
Interest and timely advice for job-seekers from Richard Alberg at his blog site here.
Whilst I totally agree with the sentiment, I wonder how much effort is actually expended by recruitment consultants, HR people and hiring managers in reading CVs …and I mean really reading, as opposed to scanning for keywords that appeared on the job spec.
I read a lot of advice for job-seekers intended to improve the way they present themselves to prospective employers, but…
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Corporate Social Responsibility Base Camp
I rarely ever hear of medium to large sized SMEs ever attempting to develop any kind of employment brand or being bothered about their employer reputation. I hardly ever see any evidence of it in any of their external recruitment communications either.
Amazingly, they then compound the problem by treating those applicants (i.e. human beings) who do respond to their self-indulgent job announcements with very little respect. These applicants are people who…
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