Recruitment Consultants

Not all recruitment consultants are shit, obviously, but many are.

Perhaps the worst, and most widely demonstrated, trait of many recruitment consultants is their spectacular lack of any working knowledge regarding the role for which they are recruiting.

I’m not talking about in-house Human Resource people here, I mean those consultants who work for agencies. Instead of asking about your experience in sensible terms, recruitment consultants instead take the easy option: talking in buzz-words and asking questions for which they don’t even understand the answer in order to tick off a client’s “checklist.”

In order to talk in buzz words, though, it helps if one knows what they mean. Here is an example:

Recruitment Concultant: “So, you can code HTML, do you know CSS?”

Applicant: “I know of it, what aspect would you like me to explain?”

RC: “do you know CSS?”

Applicant: “I know what it means, and have some experience using it. Though I haven’t coded with CSS much, I’m pretty confident with it.”

RC: “so, you don’t know CSS” *ticks ‘no’ box.

Applicant: “do YOU know what CSS means?”

RC: “Do you know flash?”

and so on…

Come on. How can you choose the best person for a job, when you neither understand the role, nor the skills of the person you’re interviewing. Go and work in a call centre and stop wasting everyone’s time.

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