Recruiters Are Flaky
Well, some recruiters are flaky, but what occupation doesn’t have its fair share of flakes?
A tip of the hat to Lee Charles of The Hire Sense blog for summarizing 10 mistakes that employers make when trying to hire new candidates:
- Flakiness.
- Making hiring decisions that aren’t based on the right criteria.
- Not distinguishing between what can be taught and what can’t.
- Not asking the right questions in interviews.
- Letting candidates get away with superficial, stock responses.
- Hiring too quickly.
- Hiring too slowly.
- Not getting back to candidates.
- Conducting intimidating, high-pressure interviews.
- Not giving an accurate portrayal of the job.
It never ceases to amaze me how many professionals in virtually every field claim to be too busy to do their jobs properly. Of course, I’ve made the same claim at times and it is always, always a cop out. If I, or anyone else, were to always properly manage our time and be proactive about the work that we do then we should never, ever be too busy to do our jobs properly.
Recruiters and hiring managers are no different than any other professionals. I once received a call from a recruiter who had purchased a job posting ad on CollegeRecruiter.com and had some questions. I asked her why she chose to use our site and she said that it was because she had posted the same job on one of the big boards and received 200 resumes within a few days. She was really upset because she didn’t have time to read through 200 resumes so she, wait for it, deleted all of them. But because she now didn’t have any resumes she then had to spend valuable time and money re-posting the same job on our site to generate more resumes.
I got that she may not have had time to properly review 200 resumes but a properly written job posting for one opening shouldn’t receive that many resumes. It should have been more narrowly written to discourage unqualified applicants and encourage only applicants which were highly qualified. So instead of investing some time at the front end in proactively writing a great job posting she wasted time and money at the back end by deleting the 200 resumes and re-posting them on CollegeRecruiter.com.
What a flake.
