8.3.2003
Bits 'N' Pieces 'N' Stuff
From a mass e-mail I got recently:
"It is personal. Employment figures mean very little to each of us. For those that are working, the unemployment rate is zero. For those that are not, it's one hundred percent. There is really nothing in between. What most folks do not realize though is that the same holds true for companies. For those companies that are working on small orders from existing clients, the economy is just plodding along. For those that just scored major contracts, however, the economy is expanding at breakneck speed. It's true that there are less of the latter situations right now, but it would be absolutely false to believe that there are none of them. The idea is to get tuned in, to find out where these new jobs will be opening up, and to put yourself in a position to land them once they become available.
Who knows about these jobs? Recruiters do. It is the job of agency recruiters and salespeople to stay in touch with the hiring managers, to build relationships with them, and to be first the find out about new job openings. But it does not stop there. The agencies must also be able to fill those openings as quickly as possible, or risk losing them to competition. As a result, their recruiters first work exclusively off their own internal database of candidates. If they don't locate a candidate internally, they will move on to the Internet. However, blindly calling candidates off the Internet, especially to a candidate who happens to enjoy gossiping, is going to invite competition. Recruiters, therefore, will look for candidates on the Internet job boards ONLY if it is necessary. Finally, the recruiters will advertise the job, but only as an absolute last resort. It is a sure bet that within a day of advertising a job, several salespeople from other agencies will be calling on their client. When a staffing agency gets a job order, it is usually the result of a good deal of effort and time. They will go to great lengths to protect those orders and to keep competing agencies away from their clients."
<Note from JobFairy.com: If you want to be popular with recruiters, don't blab about where you're interviewing. That's why it was so obnoxious when that recruiter from Atlantis Partners was trying to pry out of me where I'd been interviewing at. Sure, it was years ago, but it bugs me as much today as it did then. I have a list of Companies At Which I Could Plausibly Have Been Interviewing. Believe me, if you're trying to get a lead out of me for nothing, I'm not going to let you get the scoop on the recruiter who's been busting their butt to put me in a position. Atlantis knew what I was worth, the kind of jobs for which I could have been selected, and if they'd found out which companies I'd been interviewing with, it would have been easy for them to pitch the company in question on a less expensive version of me. And they'd keep all the profit... while I'd still be out there pounding the pavement. Thanks for nothing. If you want to be adored by recruiters, pick your favorite one and feed them all the job leads you hear once you get into a company. Especially a bigger one with lots of placement opportunities. They won't forget your help when you need it...>
Are you getting paid what you're worth?
(May link to previous year's version, which I will fix this week.)
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