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The problem is the recruiters - how much justice would it be for someone to start a recruiting agency and say to applicants, 'oh you have recruiting experience?
by mattrp 7y ago
The problem is the recruiters - how much justice would it be for someone to start a recruiting agency and say to applicants, 'oh you have recruiting experience? yeah...well, we're looking people with a different skillset.'
- Ididntdothis 7y agoI think part of it is also the interviewing process. In general I like the idea of being interviewed by future colleagues but I have been in interviews where the interviewer had a really narrow perspective and there was only one right answer and only one valid approach to problem solving. I think interviewing should be taken seriously as a skill and interviewers should be trained more.
- mattrp 7y agoI'm sorry I just thought it would be a nice ironic twist -- recruiters hiring other recruiters has to be like a matter meeting anti-matter. In all seriousness, it all comes back to the client. Having been a hiring manager, one of the things that frustrates me is that HR departments have so little bandwidth to do the one thing that's truly important (hiring) that they have no choice but to treat it like a retail shopping experience: hiring 3-5 recruiters, post it to the job boards and hope a qualified candidate shows up. And then by contrast you see the companies that work at it - they host meetups, they sponsor conferences and they go out of their way to create conversations between hiring managers and people who aren't even looking.