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If you want two or three good resumes a month, you should pay recruiters some money in advance as I suggest. When on retainer, you don't feel a need to send unq
by fecak 12y ago
If you want two or three good resumes a month, you should pay recruiters some money in advance as I suggest. When on retainer, you don't feel a need to send unqualified candidates to give a client the impression you are working hard. Contingency recruiting is the reason you get three unqualified resumes a day.
Take away the recruiters incentive to send everybody they see, and you'll see quality go up.
- poulsbohemian 12y agoYou've given some good feedback here from the perspective of a recruiter, but I think there's a point being overlooked in the conversation: most recruiters don't seem to know that they are sending an unqualified candidates. That is to say, they are either lazy and haven't done any due diligence on the candidate, or more likely, they don't actually understand the skills at play and lack the ability to assess whether the candidate is qualified. A candidate is a string of buzzwords that they can bill out at X with margin Y. That seems to be the only things the typical recruiter knows. I'm sure there are excellent tech recruiters out there, but they must be as rare as good technical talent itself.
- fecak 12y agoThanks. And I agree. I, and you as well it seems, would like to smoke those people out of the market. If companies only used firms that did a good job and didn't give out their searches to every firm out there, those recruiters will be put out of business eventually. Some might get hired by these better firms who now have increased demand, and hopefully the bad recruiters who now work for good firms will learn. Sounds easier than it is, but it starts with lower fees in my mind.