Why do recruiters face no consequences for their unprofessional behavior?
Have you ever experienced terrible recruiters during your job search?
Recruiters Behaving Badly
- Being lied to
- Unprofessional behavior like raising voices
- Long delays in communication
Unbelievable Recruiter Story
Have you been strung along by a recruiter for months, only to receive an insulting job offer that doesn’t align with your expectations?
Supervision Lacking
Why is there seemingly no oversight of recruiters’ behavior? Would you be embarrassed if your company’s recruiters treated applicants so poorly?
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Don’t entertain them!!!
I think recruiters are just stressed right now. Recruiting is like car sales, it is a field where you can go in with no marketable skills other than the gift of the gab and potentially make a bundle.
I’m not trying to denigrate recruiters! There are good ones out there! But, the barrier to entry is very low. How many times have you talked to a recruiter who is, say, 23 years old…first job out of college…been at the company for three weeks?
Because those recruiters are acting exactly how companies want them to. Most companies see recruiting as an unimportant task where the goal is to get the best possible candidate with the worst possible salary and benefit package. They don’t care if the recruitment process is excruciating, or at least not enough to actually do anything about it.
Because it’s an employer’s (recruiter’s) market
Recruiters are salespeople; they get away w stuff most non-sales folks wouldn’t, but they also don’t generally stick around long if they aren’t hitting their numbersÂ
we’re just here to make them look good, little plaything for a while to prize over who can be the most fake. If you play the part and act the role you get the “position”. Honestly you should just have said yeah, I have experience because you probably have more than the guy, they will actually hire anyway lol
There are consequences. They get fired when they aren’t able to fill roles. I would say 40% quit or get fired first year and another 30% in their 2nd year.
They aren’t in a customer service role and in the end you are not the customer the hiring manager is.
Weird to be upset at low balling you when you have admitted you have no experience.
In my experience, most recruiters are low-skill, low-professionalism temporary workers, working with candidates and companies at scale without much consideration for each candidate or recruitment. They can ask you for a resume and move on so fast, that they won’t even bother replying to you the next day. They can start the recruitment with you and be fired before they’re supposed to give feedback on your interview. They can be disorganized and unprofessional in dealing with you, or compete among themselves for a commission from the company.
The only consistent exception I’ve met is the in-house recruiters for some companies with a developed company culture. If the recruiter with a company domain email is being nice, polite and professional with me, I generally consider it a green flag about the company – but those are not as common as I’d like. It works the other way as well – unprofessionalism of a recruiter is a first warning about the company.
TL;DR: a lot of recruiters are temporary, inexperienced and/or you and that recruitment are just a short gig for them. Be polite, but don’t expect too much
And as for consequences – their shenanigans likely also have an effect on the quality of their work (which results in them having to juggle companies, grasp at straws and lie to everyone to stay afloat). If they have one company, and it’s tolerating whatever they’re doing – you probably don’t want to work there anyway.
There is or at least there will be.
Plenty of recruiters get fired but this is an echo chamber of bad situations with recruiters so you are left to believe that it happens everywhere with no repercussions.
In the 19th century writers got paid per page, because a longer book was seen as more valuable. This preference of Quantity over Quality led to an influx of poorly written, abhorrently boring novels from lesser writers.
The top recruiters who hunt for CEOs still exist, but the vast majority seem to be gaming to the system to meet unrealistic quota expectations. Why punish anyone if everyone is breaking the rules
A lot of times they are self employed on a contract and don’t have to answer to no one.
what would you like done to them? There’s the opportunity to name and shame the company, but there’s no “hot line” or professional association watch dog agency to sanction them.
There is no real consequence outside of them maybe being let go due to lack of production, but typically if they are 3rd party to the hiring company, the hiring company will never know about your experience. Agency recruiters are the devil
I had a call with a recruiter two days ago who was prepping me for an interview. I asked him the rate in which they submitted me for the J. He said he wasn’t sure and would follow up. The next morning when I found out the rate (100k paycut) I told them I was withdrawing my candidacy and would not be interviewing later that day to not waste the employers time. The recruiter then proceeded to bash me and call me unprofessional and that he would never work with me again. Too late bud, I’ll be better off not working with you!
At the end of the day the worst you could do is fire them, and that would be a step up from being a recruiter.
I agree, recruiters definitely need to be held accountable for playing games and wasting applicants’ time. Recruiters unprofessionalism also makes the company look bad and make applicants no longer interested in the company.
Companies don’t care about some false negatives (rejected candidates with good fit). Otherwise they wouldn’t use ATS automatic screening and tolerate subpar recruiter behavior.