Recruitment Career, Would You Give Up?
Recruitment Career - I almost gave up!
Imagine the scenario, you are running an international recruitment agency, you have worked really really hard, sifting through 100’s and 100’s of CV’s finding the right candidates to send to your clients.
You have some good matches and the quality of the candidates open new doors, you get new clients keen to interview Its Feb and you are working a few months ahead, so when this lot get placed, you should be paid in time for a well deserved summer holiday. Don’t let anyone tell you recruitment is a breeze, my experience tells me that dealing with people and getting them to do what you want is totally unpredictable, people will do what they want, when they want.
After the interviews, we are happy that all of them get an offer, so summer is looking rosy… First day times agreed.
Just before they are due to start the first candidate decides not to come, they just met a new partner and did not want to emigrate after all. Maybe a holiday in 12 months. It was news to me to discover the 2nd candidate had more than 1 agent. The 3rd one was not successful in their application for residency, and the others were not truthful..I lose the 4th fee when a candidate is fired on the first day for inappropriate behaviour. At least I will get 1 invoice paid, I might be able to eat..
The fee arrives in the post and the client calls to tell you to tear up the cheque, the candidate quit within the 90 full refund period. No fee for me.
I had just invested my time and money in some intensive on the job training and recruitment software, no point giving up now.
Because I did not have any formal training in recruitment, anything that could have gone wrong, went wrong. If you are still here and want to continue get some appropriate recruitment solutions sorted.
A good software for recruitment system and experience is vital to avoid the common pitfalls and would have enabled me to work smarter?
Ask about their background Have they ever live abroad before. Ask how being
apart from family would affect them.
Work Permit - They couldn’t get one
Inappropriate behaviour - local awareness lessons may have helped here. Its not ok to smoke at your desk.
Competitors Are you alone?
Professionals do well as they treat their candidates as clients and make sure they work only with good calibre of candidates.
Laura Smith
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