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Originally Posted by Muffet
Have you noticed a change in the quality of recruiters at companies? I remember when we were looking for his first job, I talked with many talented recruiters at trucking companies. They really paid attention to what we were looking for and seemed to work towards trying to find a good fit. Now, it seems to me that the recruiters I'm talking to now are girls in their early 20s who have absolutely no passion or interest in their job. They seem to be going through the motions of just checking off a list without really understanding the industry. Is it just me or does it seem that there's no personableness in the recruiters anymore? Does that even matter? I'm just not feeling like we're getting the same personalized service we were getting when he was just out of driving school----and this is when I haven't even revealed anything about his experience, just saying he has been working for 4 years and he's looking for a change, but they don't even seem excited. Back when he was looking four years, it seemed like the recruiters were excited to hear from me. Just seems strange to me. I wonder what others think about it.
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You are definitely correct about know-nothing recruiters. Remember that in the best of times,
they are all simply salespeople and it's okay as long as you're working with a KNOWLEDGEABLE
one.
I'm a wannabe OTR trucker about to enter CDL school, but I've seen the EXACT same problem
with recruiters in the contract drafting/design industry, where I toiled since 1977. Almost all
hiring in that industry is done through resume' submittals and references; if you're good (and I
was) you can make a lot of money and work around the country.
Some of these new-to-recruiting idiots will email me a job requirement for, say, a specialized
ENGINEER position, hoping to submit me to the client company listing that opening. I do NOT
qualify for such work (I'm a CAD designer with an A.A.S. two-year degree, not a degreed
professional engineer)....but these airheads simply DO KEYWORD SEARCHES of my resume'
rather than actually taking the trouble to READ it! Since words like "engineering" do appear
on my resume' in some of my job history, these fools waste their time (and mine) by magically
assuming I'm an engineer. It's happened so often I've stopped being nice and now send them
sarcastic responses....telling them it only takes about two minutes to properly ascertain what
kind of work I am seeking. I then make sure I contact their superior to complain.
It's all part of American industry's "race to the bottom" -- hire younger, CHEAPER front-office
people and let 'em learn on the job, with no thought whatsoever to just how ineffective and
inefficient these lame-o's are. Sad, but true....:angryblue: