Recruiting Agencies & HR: Hoy! Listen Up Here.

We is here wif “Joe” He be one job hunting brover. An’ he be tellin recruiting agencies to “lissen up.”

Ok, so maybe you didn’t get the whole “Ali G” intro. So here’s the boring version: I asked for some feedback regarding my services from my mailing list. One reader wrote back with the following about HR and recruitment/employment agents – do you agree, disagree?

1)I enjoyed the interview and CV tips.
2) The problem in your industry (job market/recruiting/HR) is that we are dependant on 3rd grade “headhunting” cowboys. If they don’t place you within 5 tries, or within two weeks, you are on the rack. (CV in the database) They only want to make a quick buck, doesn’t matter how they screw up your career path. They re-write the CV’s in their own crippled “standard” format. (I suppose that is the quickest way that they can then scan through it afterwards). They have first hand contact with potential employers, and they place the adverts. My impression is that companies prefer that agents do the screening of CV’s.
3) The companies itself get so many applications, that they never open all of the mails (CV’s).
4) The quality of the HR people are also questionable. We are in the hands of idiots.

Send your feedback to gerard@jobsearching.co.za

[Just a thought here from me – I actually totally understand why agencies do some of the things mentioned above. So I think the more interesting question is … “This is the way it is (for whatever reason), how am I going to deal with it? – so that my career path doesn’t get screwed up.”

What do you think? “Respek”
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