Don't Provide Your References to a Recruiter Until After Your Last Interview
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#2It's a sales driven business, not information driven. Therefore, it wasn't yet disrupted by all the "AI" automatic matching algorithms.
Re: Don't Provide Your References to a Recruiter Until After Your Last Interview
#3It's a sales driven business, not information driven. Therefore, it wasn't yet disrupted by all the "AI" automatic matching algorithms.
I don’t understand. Isn’t any business “sales driven”?
Re: Don't Provide Your References to a Recruiter Until After Your Last Interview
#4It's a sales driven business, not information driven. Therefore, it wasn't yet disrupted by all the "AI" automatic matching algorithms.
I don’t understand. Isn’t any business “sales driven”?
I think what he means by sales driven is high information asymmetry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry
It’s a fair call, if you ask me.
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#5I got an email from a local recruiter a few weeks ago and stepped outside during my lunch break to give her a call. On the initial phone call she asked me where I worked currently. After the call I stepped back into my work where I sit back to back with my manager. No more than 5 minutes later his phone rings, its the recruiter calling to see if they have any need of her services. I emailed her while he was on the phone with the recruiter and told her I was not interested and to please remove me from her list for all future positions. That was a stressful 5 minutes.
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#6On the topic of the first one, am I the only one who finds it strange that a recruiter could 'poach' one of your references? I mean, maybe I'm unusual or it works differently over here, but from what I hear, most people's references in the UK seem to be managers or business owners for the companies they worked with, not the normal employees.
Do people usually give their 'normal' colleagues as references in the US?
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#7Do people still check references? My last two gigs they didn't even bother.
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#8What do you do when the recruiter contacts your current employer before you even provide references?
Re: Don't Provide Your References to a Recruiter Until After Your Last Interview
#9It's a sales driven business, not information driven. Therefore, it wasn't yet disrupted by all the "AI" automatic matching algorithms.
I don’t understand. Isn’t any business “sales driven”?
Recruiters aren't taking your references to figure out whether you're good at your job. I mean they are, but that isn't the main purpose behind taking them. They're taking your references to build a network to acquire business from your employer.
Re: Don't Provide Your References to a Recruiter Until After Your Last Interview
#10What do you do when the recruiter contacts your current employer before you even provide references?
Lawyer up if you can afford it?