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Tales of a Bottom Feeder Recruiting Agency

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Re: Tales of a Bottom Feeder Recruiting Agency

#2

Post by kevinpet »

Someone out there needs to create a recruiter rating site. Whether I'm looking for a job or hiring, I need to know whether this jerk is actually providing good matches, or if he's just shopping around the resumes of the most desperate.

My proposed name: ratecruiter

Re: Tales of a Bottom Feeder Recruiting Agency

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Post by jraines »

kevinpet wrote: post #2

Someone out there needs to create a recruiter rating site. Whether I'm looking for a job or hiring, I need to know whether this jerk is actually providing good matches, or if he's just shopping around the resumes of the most desperate. My proposed name: ratecruiter

I think this is a pretty great idea, but the main problem is it's going to be very mixed. I used to work for a recruiting firm. I wasn't there long enough for people in my market to form opinions of me (I think), but if you took one of the managing partners you'd get a pretty good number of people who would sing their praises for legitimately helping them make a big leap in their career, and an equal or probably greater number who'd just view them as a phone annoyance.

And if it caught on, you can bet the recruiters would have some lower level person on every team who'd be tasked with gaming the site.

Re: Tales of a Bottom Feeder Recruiting Agency

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Post by brown9-2 »

I never get stories that start out with "This really annoying stranger called me and wouldn't get off the phone so I spoke to him for about 5 minutes"... The easiest way to deal with these idiots would have been to hang up the phone and delete the emails.
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