{"id":4169,"date":"2013-12-12T09:22:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T17:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/recruitloop.wpengine.com\/?p=4169"},"modified":"2023-05-15T10:57:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T17:57:44","slug":"5-ways-recruiters-have-pissed-me-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zippia.com\/employer\/5-ways-recruiters-have-pissed-me-off\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Ways Recruiters Have Pissed Me Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot of the time, I really do love recruiters. Heck, I\u2019ve even blogged about it right here<\/a>. Sometimes, though, recruiters really piss me off. Is anyone with me? Do you love to hate recruiters? Do you view them as a necessary evil? Maybe you\u2019ll relate to some of these tales, then\u2026<\/p>\n

The Recruiter Who Was Sexist<\/h2>\n

One recruiter who I\u2019ll call Bob managed to piss me off me with his very first sentence.<\/p>\n

My encounter with Bob happened when I was running an IT department. I wasn\u2019t fortunate enough to have an admin, so I answered my own phone. I answered it one day, saying, \u201cHello, this is Jenn.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJenn, sweetie, this is Bob from . Can you transfer me to your boss?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBob, sweetie, I AM the boss.\u201d<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s just say that the conversation didn\u2019t go up from there.<\/p>\n

The Recruiter Who Yelled at Me<\/h2>\n

I\u2019ve worked with some recruiters from both sides of the desk \u2013 both as a candidate and as a hiring manager. Some of them I still have relationships with (even though they\u2019re in Boston and I\u2019m in San Francisco), but others\u2026 well, shall we say that they might have wished they hadn\u2019t encountered me?<\/p>\n

I was 25 years old and looking for a non-boring job. A recruitment agency found my resume, met with me, and then sent me straight to a company from our initial meeting. Despite this awkward start, I had a few good interviews with one firm, and we had hit the negotiating stage.<\/p>\n

As I was discussing salary with my recruiter, she started actually yelling at me, saying, \u201cYou just got a raise! Why do you care if you make any more money than you do at your current company?\u201d<\/p>\n

Um\u2026 excuse me?<\/p>\n

Fast-forward a few years to when I became head of IT. Guess whose calls I wouldn\u2019t take? For years, I proactively warned my colleagues and firms away from her recruitment agency \u2013 and I was an officer in an international organization that had quite a long reach.<\/p>\n

Perhaps she shouldn\u2019t have yelled.<\/p>\n

The Recruiter Who Didn\u2019t Communicate<\/h2>\n

When you\u2019re a recruiter working with a candidate who is looking at hiring manager roles, you\u2019d think that you\u2019d have your future with that candidate in mind, right?<\/p>\n

Not so much, apparently.<\/p>\n

This recruiter was very communicative at first. And then he wasn\u2019t. This wouldn\u2019t have been a problem, except he stopped communicating before he gave me the details on an in-person interview<\/i>. I called and emailed many, many times with no luck.<\/p>\n

In other words, he scheduled the interview and then stopped taking my calls. Clearly, I missed the interview and didn\u2019t get the job.<\/p>\n

The last time I heard from him as a candidate, he left me a voice mail yelling at me for missing the interview and making him look bad.<\/p>\n

Then I heard from him as a hiring manager. Guess who didn\u2019t return his phone call?<\/p>\n

The Recruiter Who Phone Spammed Me<\/h2>\n

One recruiter left me a message literally every day for a month talking about various fantastic candidates she had for me.<\/p>\n

This wouldn\u2019t have been so bad, but I wasn\u2019t hiring. In fact, my firm had just gone through some pretty painful layoffs. After the third or fourth message, I actually called her back and told her that we wouldn\u2019t be hiring for a while.<\/p>\n

The next day, guess what message was on my phone?<\/p>\n

And guess what recruiter I didn\u2019t call when I had a role open up?<\/p>\n

The Rudest Recruiter Ever<\/h2>\n

This one takes place back at the beginning of my career running IT departments, when I hadn\u2019t yet learned to never answer my phone. The conversation went a little something like this:<\/p>\n

\u201cHello, this is Jenn.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHi Jenn, this is Bob from . I hear you guys just opened up shop, and I have this great network admin candidate who would be perfect for you!\u201d<\/p>\n

(A little coldly) \u201cThanks, Bob, but we just hired and don\u2019t have a need for a candidate right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, Jenn, the word on the street is that you\u2019re difficult to work with and a real bitch.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Speechless for a moment) \u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, you\u2019re not going to get very far if your reputation keeps up like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

I actually hung up on him.<\/p>\n

I hope you enjoyed those stories. Everyone at RecruitLoop has had our ups and downs with recruiters, which is why we\u2019re so fanatical about making sure that our recruiters<\/a> don\u2019t suck. (When we say \u201ccurated marketplace\u201d, we mean it, dammit!)<\/p>\n

That said, I am curious \u2013 any recruiter horror stories of your own to share?<\/recruitment><\/recruiting><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve worked with some recruiters from both sides of the desk \u2013 both as a candidate and as a hiring manager. Some of them I still have relationships with (even though they\u2019re in Boston and I\u2019m in San Francisco), but others\u2026 well, shall we say that they might have wished they hadn\u2019t encountered me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[74],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n5 Ways Recruiters Have Pissed Me Off<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sometimes recruiters really piss me off. Do you love to hate recruiters? Do you view them as a necessary evil? 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