Vent - recruiters

describes

Just looking to get this off my chest.

I have been made redundant and over the weekend, I added my CV to a few websites and was hoping to start having a proper look.

I have been inundated with calls. Way more than I was expecting which has helped me remain positive during this difficult time.

But what is really starting to annoy me is them not getting back to me. Telling me all about this amazing job and I think you would be great etc etc. One even went so far to tell me that I am everything they have ever been looking for. Then never getting back to me. "Oh I will call you in 10 minutes" then nothing. "I will have a look and get back to you this afternoon" then nothing again.
I've had over 30 calls the last 3 days and I am getting sick of being lead up the garden path already. Making an awful situation even worse

buglawton

Put a good timeline of your qualifications and work experience into LinkedIn and set your status as looking for a new position. You may get more serious approaches. I've had direct approaches and interviews via LinkedIn from company HR depts.

coffeehound

Beware of agencies offering phoney jobs just to get your details out of you to get you on their books. I even had one clown take up my references for a fake job

missile

Unfortunately that is the norm with most agencies and many employers.

Prepare yourself for the next phase, when you are invited for interview, sometimes 100s of miles from your home town. You attend and then hear nothing.

There is no easy answer. I regularly get enquiries from via Linkedin and recruiters from all over the world who want to be my friend. Once your name, phone number, address and e mail is out there expect fake phishing e mails and worse >

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buglawton

Whoever would dream of putting personal details like that in their LinkedIn profile?

Genuine recruiters will have a premium LinkedIn account and will contact you through LinkedIn itself.

Even small and medium companies HR people (not just recruitment agencies) use these premium accounts to recruit. If one does it's a good sign, shows they're a being a bit entrepreneurial.

buglawton

Talking of companies contacting you then not being serious, it seems the tables turned and the casual attitude of recruiters is blamed for millenials also not being serious when applying for jobs nowadays:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/people-ghosting-work-its-driving-companies-crazy-chip-cutter/

missile

buglawton wrote: »

Whoever would dream of putting personal details like that in their LinkedIn profile?

Genuine recruiters will have a premium LinkedIn account and will contact you through LinkedIn itself.

Even small and medium companies HR people (not just recruitment agencies) use these premium accounts to recruit. If one does it's a good sign, shows they're a being a bit entrepreneurial.

My details are not on my profile. The scammer with what appeared to be a genuine LinkedIn profile suckered me in with a request from a recruiter for my cv for a fake job.

missile

buglawton wrote: »

Talking of companies contacting you then not being serious, it seems the tables turned and the casual attitude of recruiters is blamed for millenials also not being serious when applying for jobs nowadays:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/people-ghosting-work-its-driving-companies-crazy-chip-cutter/

really??? >>

Professionals who entered the workforce a decade ago, during the height of the Great Recession, have never encountered a job market this strong. The unemployment rate is at an 18-year low.

buglawton

That's the LinkedIn journalists take on it. Valid? Possibly there really has been a culture shift recently that recruiters have noticed

In the 80s companies still offered travel expenses to interviewees. And then relocation assistance once you joined. These evaporated never to return. Perhaps employers griping about recruiting difficulties should think about going 'back to the future'.

NBLondon

Remember the "recruitment consultant" is paid by the employer - not by you. They are not about helping you get a job, they are about getting approximately suitable CVs and bodies in front of the employer. Once the employer has chosen and paid the invoice - the rest of the applicants often get ignored. You may well have to push them for a response, Some of them, I suspect, are incentivised on the quantity of people they get to interview but not the quality. I place them just above estate agents... if you find a good one, they are worth it; but there are many mediocre ones out there. Which is, I expect, what an employer would also find.

hollydays

Also learn to spot the " commission only " jobs