| Topic Name: |
Need tips for avoiding HR |
| Message Name: |
Don't be too hard on the recruiters |
| Date Posted: |
05/10/2002 |
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Much useful info, but the link is slightly skewed to the abilities and power of recruiters who work in an industry with an ethically challlanged reputation. Although many recruitors have job experience in the industry they specialize in, many have only minimal or none in their industry. Many successful headhunters don't even have an undergrad degree. Therefore they rely on the same cookie cutter profiles corporate HR people do because they don't have the foggiest idea of what anything means. And keep n mind, even in situations when the official client is the hiring manager or the president or CEO instead of HR, HR is still screening the candidates resumes before the hiring manager or others see them. Therefore the results are always the same for then on-cookie cutter, except when applying for a job through a headhunter, protocol demands that you lose the luxury of callng the perpective employer on your own if you're rejected. without an interview, even if you know who the company is. |
| Message: |
I have been skeptical in the past about recruiters/HR screeners, but recently had a very encouraging experience.
After trying very hard to get through to a firm I want to work for, I finally got through the the HR manager. I was then transferred to the recruiter who was dealing with this position. I initially thought I was going to hit a dead end here, but had a great conversation and outlined my skills. At the end of the call she said she was going to talk to the actual hiring manager that day, and would push me forward to his attention.
I now have a renewed faith in this process. Sometimes it works. Now of course I have to get an interview there, ace that, and get the offer, but for the moment I'm happy with the process.
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