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I really don’t like to see anyone who needs a job out of work, but it’s interesting to see recruiters who have been laid off complaining about their own job search struggles. 🤔 Do you think they are truly reflecting on their past practices or will they go back to their old ways once they find a new recruiting gig?
Here are some possible reasons for their struggles and a solution that might help them in their job search:
– They may be relying too heavily on their past experience and not adapting to the current job market trends.
– Their networking skills might need polishing, especially if they focused mainly on client relationships in their previous roles.
– They could benefit from updating their resume and LinkedIn profile to showcase transferable skills and accomplishments.
By focusing on self-improvement and staying open to new strategies, recruiters facing job search challenges can increase their chances of landing a new role. Let’s help each other grow and succeed in this competitive job market! 💪🏼🌟
They won’t “learn” anything, because the issue largely isn’t just them…it’s systemic. They are merely rationally responding to a poorly designed incentive structure.
Step 1- Employers treat employees poorly. Employees complain to the government, since HR is just the mouthpiece of the business, and unions are now barely a thing.
Step 2- Government feels the need to address labors’ concerns, but in a way that doesn’t upset corporate interests and their campaign’s cash flow of big, dark money. A regulation is passed, but with lots of conditions and restrictions that make enforcement near impossible.
Step 3- Business leadership consults legal counsel about the new laws, and legal stirs them into a massive panic, convincing them that they’ll never be able to ever fire a bad worker ever again! Oh no!
Step 4- Hiring procresses and decisions get dragged out as hiring managers now think every innocuous thing on the resume is a “red flag” that their candidates will be a complete monster, and sue them into oblivion if they dare to try to improve the candidate’s performance in any way after hiring.
Step 5- Existing staff end up picking up the slack and cross-training to fill gaps. Once those staff leave, the position’s “new normal” duties includes those cross-trained functions, which may not be a common combination of skills among the pol of candidates.
Step 6- After a long, infuriating process, someone is hired. Management is horrified to discover that, yes, the new hire needs some training on policies and procedures. They also probably will not perform as a new hire at the same level that the person who just left, that had 5 to 10 years of job enlargement/enrichment and cross-training.
Step 7- above new hire gets put on performance improvement plan, and treated poorly. They complain to the government…
It is ironic
What actual skills do recruiters even have?
Anyone can make a phone call and send emails, it is not that difficult.
What I find hilarious is when these out of work recruiters post job seeking advice
“During my last 3 months looking for a job ..these are the top 5 things to land you that job “
Recruiters seem like needless middle persons in the process.
Recruiters are horrible, by and large, and deserve to be replaced by either people who aren’t, or not at all. Fuck them.
Tech recruiter here 🖐🏽. Been out of work for 1 year and 2 months. In other words, 🖕🏾 this economy!
FYI – the two things you have highlighted here – not getting interviews or getting the job – are not things that a recruiter can ‘do better’ at.
Recruiters can be better at corresponding to candidates, being open and honest about the recruitment process, and providing relevant and valuable feedback.
But an individual candidate getting either an interview, or getting the job isn’t the recruiter’s responsibility.
A majority of the shit that people get mad at recruiters for are completely the fault of the hiring manager, lmao
The vast majority of the time the shitty process, excessive stages, stupid take home assignments etc. are out of the recruiters hands.
Of course there are loads of wank ones but it’s myopic to think that they’re not just a shitty cog in a broken machine.
I can’t believe it took this long for companies to start cutting recruiters. That would be the first place I looked if I had to make cuts.
Job market would be better if recruiters didn’t exist. Change my mind.
These kind of posts are honestly… pathetic. Recruiters do little to nothing to influence what’s actually going on at companies. Blaming them or mocking them when they lose their jobs is like blaming fast food prices on the cashier at McDonalds. Weak.
You know the bird that eats the food remains stuck in the teeth of a crocodile (Pluvianus aegyptius)?
>Do you think they are “learning” any lessons – or are they just going to go back to their shit ways if and when they get a new recruiting gig.
That’s a loaded question because of how vast recruiting is. I do believe that some are going to keep using their shit ways but I also think that there are some in that crowd that try to be the best they can be.
At the end of it majority of them were just resources a company was using until the usefulness ran out.
If you believe every single recruiter is terrible at their job then sure. But yeah, I have a hard time being happy that anyone is unemployed and struggling.