How not to Annoy Recruiters
Job recruiters have one aim in mind and that is to recruit suitable employees for a specific job. Job recruiters go through potentially thousands of applications per day and do not have the time for applicants who are not serious about entering the workforce or see everything as a joke.
Here are ways in which the applicant can show recruiters that they are serious about gaining employment :
Send a detailed curriculum vitae to the recruiter. Leave out any unnecessary information. Job recruiters need to see specific experience and skills so that they can place an applicant in a suitable position. Applicants need to be to the point, and try to provide the recruiter with a professional resume. Applicants should try to minimise spelling and grammatical errors when submitting a resume to an agency as the consultant at the agency is going to double check and format the resume according to the company standards.
Applicants should not lie about skills and level of expertise. Applicants who lie on their resume can annoy job recruiters. Once they are placed in a position the employer will find out that they do not have the skills and this gives the applicant and the recruiter a bad name.
Job recruiters do require paperwork on time. This can be copies of qualifications, professional bodies and identity documents. Once a candidate has been invited to attend an interview all relevant documentation needs to be forwarded to the employer or the applicant could be disqualified. Remember that job recruiters go through potentially thousands of applicants a day so apart from the competition being tough the job recruiter will not put up with incomplete applications as this can cause huge delays.
Applicants should be serious about taking on a position. If the applicant decides to turn down a position then he/she should contact the recruiter as soon as possible as there are generally a line of potential employees waiting to be placed.
Applicants should not keep phoning a recruiter to find out the state of an application. This can annoy the job recruiter and the applicant will become a nuisance. The recruiter will call the applicant once he/she has been successfully placed in a position.
Many agencies place highly skilled locums in positions. There are market related rates that apply to locums depending on the level of skills, expertise and demand and supply. Applicants need to be reasonable when negotiating pay-rates. The applicant should not be rude or speak abruptly to the job recruiter as he/she could choose not to place this applicant.
The attitude of the applicant goes a long way when dealing with job recruiters. Rude, arrogant, irresponsible and tardy job applicants are not going to impress job recruiters. Job recruiters and applicants tend to build a relationship of trust and co-dependence over the years of working together.
