Working With Recruiters In Your Jobsearch

Sarah Cooper : Recruiter 14 yrs

Owner McGinnisLoy Ltd Blog at

www.approachthemarket.com

The Problem With Recruiters is they ...

General Areas

• Response – complete lack of, tone, generic responses and lack of empathy

• Secrecy – cloak and dagger approach, mistrust, fake jobs

• Pressure – ‘salesy’ approach, aggressiveness, agency rivalry

• Integrity – lies, false hope, broken promises

Types Of Recruiters

• Agency : High Street, Specialist

• RPO companies, onsite and off site

• Headhunters

• In house, direct sourcing

• Web Based

• Master Vendor, manage PSL

• HR

• Different for contract, Perm, Salary bands, countries, departments

Fundamental Change

Position in the chain in a changing recruitment landscape – move towards direct hire, sourcing-finding the few not attracting the many. How far away many agency recruiters actually are from the hiring manager and how many pairs of hands a job spec now goes through.

Recruiters Are Not…

…But They Could Be…

Good Candidates

• Someone who knows what they want...and can articulate it

• Prepared to put the work in on the application

• Responsive

• Honest

• Prepared

• Hard to find

Solutions For Better Working

• Know what you want

• Agree actions and timescales then follow up. Be proactive

• Build relationship- ask what can I do to increase my chances?

• Get to know them

• Utilise every call to you

Thank You.

Contact me

Twitter @approachmarket

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahloucooper

Blog:

www.approachthemarket.com