A place where reality doesn’t bite
Posted by Mitch on 22nd October 2015
A few weeks ago I was having lunch with someone I’d connected with via LinkedIn and who isn’t in the recruitment industry. During lunch he asked me this:
“Mitch, if most of the people that read your stuff are recruiters, how do you get away with saying things like 70% of them are useless?”
Despite never having been asked that question before, my answer was swift and unequivocal:
“Because every recruiter thinks they’re in the 30%.”
It is this unswerving optimism, and in some cases delusion, that keeps many recruitment agencies going.
The mistake a lot of people make is saying that all agency recruiters are useless.
That’s when they really get upset.
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