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... is there Yelp for recruiters? Because I'd want to know a recruiter pulls stunts like that before I work with them.
by Pxtl 8y ago
... is there Yelp for recruiters? Because I'd want to know a recruiter pulls stunts like that before I work with them.
- ztjio 8y agoHave you ever seen Yelp reviews for car salespeople? Recruiters are the used car salespeople of the hiring world. There’s no point in a review system where everyone averages out to 0 stars.
- mandelbrotwurst 8y agoStrongly disagree. I hope you are being hyperbolic. While there is certainly a wide range in competency and the level of value provided by recruiters, many of them are MUCH better than zero stars.
- asfdsfggtfd 8y agoYes but the unscrupulous ones will be happy to give and receive fake reviews. The more honest ones won't. So it will be hard to tell the difference between a bad recruiter (fake positive and real negative reviews) and a good recruiter (real positive and fake negative reviews).
- mikekchar 8y agoIt's actually really easy. My standard test for potential recruiters: Tell me something about myself. This takes a tiny amount of work -- anybody who has my email address can google me and find a huge amount of stuff. A recruiter who is not bothered to do that will not be bothered to find a job that's good for me. When I find a good recruiter, I stick with them (as long as I'm shopping in the area that they deal with). I make sure they know that. If a recruiter is good enough that they can value a long term relationship as opposed to frantically trying to meet their sales targets every month, then they are a good recruiter. The downside is that there are practically no good recruiters ;-). If I'm seriously looking for a job, I look as hard for recruiters as I do for a job. Often I find the job before the recruiter.
- CaptainZapp 8y agoI liked the following analogy: Recruiters are like pimps, but without the morals And pimps usually dress better.
- king_nothing 8y agoThey’re (mostly but not all) used-car liars until proven otherwise. Alphabet’s HR people seem nice, helpful, sharp & legit... they work really hard to place people in roles where people want to be and that want them. Triplebyte maybe a better model to help with the search. Also, it’s entirely plausible to sell yourself as well as or perhaps sometimes even better than a recruiter could if you consider their needs carefully, show you can hustle (follow-up, negotiate, stick to some requirements, etc.) and save the hiring manager/company time&money.
- heyyyouu 8y agoThis is a fantastic idea.
- fredophile 8y agoI don't think this would work. Anyone that is already using shady business practices wouldn't object to posting a few fake reviews of themselves and their competitors either.
- vkou 8y agoNot to mention that many people burned by those business practices may not even realize they got burned. There's a lot of information asymmetry in the telephone game of candidate -> recruiter -> hr -> hiring manager.
- mandelbrotwurst 8y agoPeople will post fake reviews but I don't think that means this necessarily wouldn't work. It would certainly be challenging though.
- oldcynic 8y agoThey nearly all pull stunts like that.
- philipodonnell 8y agoI've checked out https://app.recruitsy.co/ https://app.recruitsy.co/ (no affiliation) if you're in one of the more common roles/locations where you receive a lot of inquiries. A directory like this needs to exist.