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The Role of Recruiters in Your Job Search | |
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Author: | PharmaVet
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| Date: | 09-22-06 11:25pm |
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The role that recruiters play in a job search is a bit of a mystery to most people. Just as you need to know whose side a real estate agent is on when you're buying a house, it's essential that you understand whom recruiters work for and where they fit into your job search.
It's a very common misconception that recruiters work for job seekers. In fact, recruiters work for the employer. They are retained by the employer to deliver a pool of qualified candidates from which the employer may – or may not – hire. There are various payment arrangements between employers and recruiters, but typically the recruiter will be paid a percentage of the new hire's base salary. Reputable recruiters never require the job seeker to pay a fee.
In this age of online job searches, a recruiter's geographic location has become unimportant. A company in New Jersey might retain a recruiter in California to fill an open position in Texas. Recruiters find most of their candidates these days through job boards like MedZilla, and there are a couple of different ways this works:
- They go fishing. They throw out their bait – a job posting – and wait for candidates to respond to it.
- They go hunting. They pay a fee to the job board for the right to search the job board's database of resumes for candidates who appear to meet their criteria.
Recruiters only seek candidates for positions they've been hired to fill. Therefore, a smart job seeker will be in contact with as many recruiters as possible. If they don't know you exist, they can't sell you to the employer. So how do you become known to recruiters?
- You become the fish. You swim around on the job boards looking at postings and when you see one that interests you, you respond to it.
- You become the prey. You make sure that your resume is an attention-getter so that recruiters will notice it and hunt you down.
It's critically important that you use both tactics in order to maximize your exposure to recruiters. Either tactic may get you an interview...but your chances are doubled if you are both fish and prey.
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| Author: JT |
Nov 17, 2008, 07:05AM |
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Unfortunately , it is individuals such as yourself that do not know thew true "pluses" to work with an efficient, reputable Recruiter. I am not argueing that 85% of Recruiters out there simply play "matchmaker" and spend most of their days perusing the boards trying to find "prey" or posting bogus job requisitions to hopefully lure candidates.
I , as well as my colleagues take great pride in what we do. We change peoples career paths & in turn, their lives. always for the better. That''s correct, ALWAYS !!! . This is accomplished by good , old fashioned cold calling. We identify a candidate through our own network, referrals and calling into competitive companies to "RECRUIT" unhappy employees.
I would say that 70% of our placements are made many months, sometimes years, down the road. This is all based upon listening to what the candidate is saying when asked "what is your ideal situation?" "What would make you entertain moving?". By listening & taking their personal situations into account, then & ONLY THEN , can we seek that opportunity.
It is unfortunate to most individuals that untrained, incompetant Recruiters, (if we want to call them that),tarnish what our profession is all about. On one hand, we continuously get high accolades regarding the way we conduct ourselves compared to most of our competitors and that keeps us very, very busy with our continued pipeline of qualified candidates.
Yes, the clients pay us but when we place a candidate, guess who calls US inb the future when they become hiring authorities? So in essence, we work just as evenly on both sides of each job requisition. It''s all about relationships........ On both sides.
I hope this clarifies the recruiting process, ( as it should be) , to you and everyone reading this blog. |
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