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Job Search |
| Message Name: |
Searching w/o risking current job |
| Date Posted: |
09/05/2005 |
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The simplest thing to do is
omit your personal information from your resume.
You may even want to disguise the name of your company (e.g., ABC Widgets or "Leading Company in the vertical markets software industry").
To find recruiters in your industry, go to Barnes & Noble, Borders, or any decent bookstore where you can find
a Directory of Executive Recruiters. I believe the title to the largest such is "Kennedy Directory of Executive Recruiters". It's a Big Red Paperback Book. It offers multiple ways to research recruitment firms...by industry, geography and so on.
Remember: you can just as easily send your resume to companies as having a recruiter forward it for you. NOTE: if you are staying in your current industry, any company that has a current opening for someone with your qualifications will most likely respond to your resume. It only takes a few minutes to research the name of the head of the department you want to work in, so it would pay you to send your resume directly to that person. If you don't have time to do that research, don't worry about it, because if you are qualified for the position, HR will certainly forward your resume to the appropriate hiring authority.
By doing it yourself, there's a better chance you can negotiate a more lucrative compensation plan, since hiring you would cost 30% less than it would if a recruiter commission would have to be paid. Also, recruiters won't send your resume to companies that DON'T pay recruiter fees, so if you just rely on recruiters to send your resume, some of your BEST opportunities may quietly slip away, totally unbeknownst to you. Also, any company that views your credentials as meeting the minimum threshhold of being qualified, MIGHT take a pass on you if a recruiter fee is involved, whereas, if you go direct, they might well give your candidacy a closer look.
Your qualifications have to be a very close match before a recruiter will send it for a good position.
One poster said that there are "some" recruiters that charge the job hunter. Based on my experience, job hunters
that get jobs via recruiters
always ABSORB the cost of a recruiter's commission. They will try and argue that isn't the case and that you don't personally write a check to the recruiter. It's true that you don't personally pay the recruiter and it's ALSO true that you nearly always end up absorbing the COST of their fee. NOTE: another poster Ever notice how positions advertised by recruiters say things like "compensation up TO $100K"? Via a recruiter, you might get an offer for that job at somewhere around $70-75K.
Going direct gives you far more advantages than putting your fate in the hands of someone that doesn't represent your interest.
The poster that said "some" recruiters charge the job hunter didn't give the name of any such company, and I believe the reason why is because it's a myth that there ARE any such companies.
Not that there would be anything WRONG with it, if there was, but in my 18 years of experience as a Job Hunter's Consultant, I've only run across a few PLACEMENT firms that charge job hunters, and I haven't run across ANY of them, since about 1989. Besides, the jobs they place people in are for very low-level clerical positions, mainly.
Tom Kellum
TKellum1@netscape.com |
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Thanks for your comments. All of the things you said with regard to recruiters sounds reasonable.
My question is how do you not disclose your personal information on a resume without raising a red flag. Hiring folks are already nit picky, any one thing can eliminate you from a possible interview.
Also, putting a different name for my current company? Wouldn't that cause a problem down the line with regard to honesty when they find out the compnay one stated on a resume is named something else?
Thanks again for your help.
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