#recruiters #candidateexperience #jobsearchwoes
Sorry if this is long, but I had to vent about this experience I had recently.
So, here’s the deal – I interviewed for what seemed like a dream Recruiter role at a luxury retail brand. The role was perfect, the interview went well, but then things took a strange turn. They ended up offering me a job at one of their retail locations…selling clothes. 🤦♂️ What gives?!
This whole situation got me thinking about why Recruiters sometimes get a bad rap. It’s all about the lack of respect for candidates, the lack of critical thinking, and the assumption that we’re all interchangeable. So, what can we do to combat this negative reputation?
Here are a few thoughts:
– Treat candidates with respect and keep them informed throughout the process
– Take the time to really understand what each candidate is looking for in a role
– Don’t make assumptions based on outdated stereotypes
– Value the experience and expertise that Recruiters bring to the table
Let’s work together to change the narrative around Recruiters and create a positive impact on the job market. Who’s with me? 💪👔🚀
This is wild
For me, this highlights two things.
Hiring Managers are ridiculous sometimes and ask recruiters to relay truly insane messages.
Too many recruiters do not have or have yet to learn how to push back on hiring managers and these shenanigans.
Sorry OP
If there is something that history has shown us, it is the people with power abuse people without power. Recruiters and hiring managers have the power and the unethical abuses they commit have no end. Your example seems a mild one.
After years of meeting tons of desperate people that jump all the (mostly st*pid) hoops recruiters and hiring managers design (only to have a long shot of having a job)., pride attacks recruiter’s brain and they feel themselves beyond good and evil. They treat candidates like sh*t and candidates have to take it because they need a job to live.
Yesterday I saw a recruiter (a young girl who could be my daughter) publicly scolding job candidates on LinkedIn because of petty things, like naming their résumés “CV 2024.docx”. So, if you want the name of the CV to include our name (because the web platform in which you force us to st*pidly repeat our CV cannot generate a unique file name and you don’t want to read the things we write in this platform and you force us to write), please specify it in the job offer and everybody will comply. Don’t scold anonymous people publicly on the Internet with sanctimony to feed your pride. I would have answered her but some other recruiter could see my message and disqualify me because of it.
As Lord Acton said, “power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely”. Recruiters and hiring managershave absolute power over us and they are absolutely corrupted.
EDIT: Edited to include the hiring managers. But the young girl was a recruiter not a hiring manager.
Maybe it was a test to see how passionate you were about their product. Go work a day in the life before selling the opportunity.
That’s… Pure insanity
In some places I’ve worked, 10k wouldn’t be slight in terms of salary negotiation. Asking you to work in a retail store is quite ridiculous.
To be fair, if their recruiter left and HR was doing this function it’s not a surprise if they do thing suboptimally. I also think it’s a bit of a pride thing to be offended by their offer they are just desperate and were under a lot of pressure to fill some retail roles.
Was it because they need to staff their store or is it part of their ethos? I read the CEO of DoorDash requires everyone in the company, even him as the CEO, to do a few DoorDash runs. McDonald’s used to require everyone from corporate to do a shift in the restaurant.
The issue is most people don’t know how to recruit for recruiters. In this scenario looks like you connected with HR, which took over recruiting duties but let’s be real it’s not the same (which is why it’s hard for TA to transition to HR…). Anyway its causing a huge vicious cycle.