How To Handle Recruiter Calls
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How To Handle Recruiter Calls
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#2How can they earn that much? Most of them are useless as professionals and worthless as human beings. Real mystery for me.
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#3Politely inform them that you're not looking right now. Ask them to e-mail you a job description so that if you happen across anyone who meets the requirements, you can put them in touch.
There's no need to go nuclear on them. After all, they might be able to do you a favor one day.
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#4The problem is that the retaining company doesn't receive black marks for hiring bad recruiters because the companies are anonymous until the candidate shows strong interest (and this were happy to receive the call.)
I can think of two healthier payout structures. One is for the recruiting company to pay regardless of results and better instruct the recruiter what to do and not do (this would be followed more closely since there would be little incentive to spam.) The other is to retain the firm and pay an earnout for every candidate hired during that period regardless of source, with the understanding that the recruiter must identify the company that is hiring.
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#5Politely inform them that you're not looking right now. Ask them to e-mail you a job description so that if you happen across anyone who meets the requirements, you can put them in touch. There's no need to go nuclear on them. After all, they might be able to do you a favor one day.
I don't understand why you would ever refer someone to a job through a cold-calling recruiter. If you know someone good who's looking for a job, just help them find a job directly.
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#6I appreciate this article for taking an angle I'd never thought of, actually getting recruiters to stop by punishing them. But if you're not going to actually take those steps, I wrote up a different set of tips.
https://medium.com/tony-stubblebine/cda0c5da9c8e
Recruiters can be infuriating, so the true cost of the call is the 10 seconds it took for you to hang up on them plus the 15 minutes it takes to calm down. As an example, I hung up on someone yesterday who called right back with this line, "Are you that fast will all your women."
They're relentless.
Anyway, the TLDR; version of my trick in the Medium post above is to have a script that's very happy but which leads to you hanging up no matter what response they give you. Somehow that lets me imagine that I'm having a polite conversation regardless of how they try to trap me.
I'm usually super calm, but these calls used to get under my skin and distract me. I can't have that.
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#7Politely inform them that you're not looking right now. Ask them to e-mail you a job description so that if you happen across anyone who meets the requirements, you can put them in touch. There's no need to go nuclear on them. After all, they might be able to do you a favor one day.
I disagree. I get 4 phone calls a day from recruiters trying to sell me "talent" for my startup. They refuse to get off the phone when I politely tell them we have a policy of not using recruiters, follow up by email, and then of course they call again next month. My phone going off causes a distraction, causing me to fall out of the zone and waste a few minutes as I try to figure out why they're calling and try to politely get them off the phone.
Really, they are absolute fuckers with no consideration for anyone but themselves, and going nuclear is long past due.
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#8Politely inform them that you're not looking right now. Ask them to e-mail you a job description so that if you happen across anyone who meets the requirements, you can put them in touch. There's no need to go nuclear on them. After all, they might be able to do you a favor one day.
I don't understand why you would ever refer someone to a job through a cold-calling recruiter. If you know someone good who's looking for a job, just help them find a job directly.
I haven't. It's a polite brush-off.
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#9Politely inform them that you're not looking right now. Ask them to e-mail you a job description so that if you happen across anyone who meets the requirements, you can put them in touch. There's no need to go nuclear on them. After all, they might be able to do you a favor one day.
I disagree. I get 4 phone calls a day from recruiters trying to sell me "talent" for my startup. They refuse to get off the phone when I politely tell them we have a policy of not using recruiters, follow up by email, and then of course they call again next month. My phone going off causes a distraction, causing me to fall out of the zone and waste a few minutes as I try to figure out why they're calling and try to p…
How about not answering the phone unless you recognize the number?
Re: How To Handle Recruiter Calls
#10Politely inform them that you're not looking right now. Ask them to e-mail you a job description so that if you happen across anyone who meets the requirements, you can put them in touch. There's no need to go nuclear on them. After all, they might be able to do you a favor one day.
I disagree. I get 4 phone calls a day from recruiters trying to sell me "talent" for my startup. They refuse to get off the phone when I politely tell them we have a policy of not using recruiters, follow up by email, and then of course they call again next month. My phone going off causes a distraction, causing me to fall out of the zone and waste a few minutes as I try to figure out why they're calling and try to p…
This is exactly my experience as a hiring manager with cold-call recruiters too.