Something is fundamentally wrong with the way people place job ads and search jobs.
First of all, people don't put the company name out.
In a sensible world, you would see "HELP WANTED - waiter" poster at the window of a restaurant, or a classified ad that says "HELP WANTED - Planet Pizza - waiter". Potential waiters knows exactly which restaurant to work with and apply if interested.
However, what I see is third party recruiters that says "My pizza restaurant client is looking for waiters, if interested, call Pizza Waiters" ads. Why is Planet Pizza so shy to put their own ads out? Why pay the middle man?
Another strange happening is there can be more than 1 pizza waiter recruiters putting out the same ad for Pizza Planet. Though wording may not exactly the same.
So if you see 5 ads, they may all point back to just 1 ad.
More strange happening is that Planet Pizza will post ad, along with third party recruiters posting for the same job too. My theory is this, the pizza recruiter would call Planet Pizza that says "hey, i got a pizza waiter" and try to sell the body to Planet Pizza. I prefer contacting Planet Pizza directly.
This is non-sense. Why can't just Planet Pizza place their own ads? Potential waiters would then know exactly which restaurant to work for. Planet Pizza also does not need to pay the third party recruiters. Win-Win.
Remove the middleman. Direct is better.
1 comment:
In a perfect world, head hunters shouldn't exist. However there are lots of wrong people (dummies) applying for the few jobs.
The signing bonus is up for grabs, the head hunter or the applicant. Companies don't care who gets it.
The head hunter exist to weed out dummies. Usually the head hunters are the dummies themselves with no clue what AJAX or .NET really mean.
Some head hunters are helpful, are were just huge time wasters that want the old Resume in Word (PDF need not send as attachment)
Finding a (new) job is very hard because the bean counters have too much power, and hiring managers have no faith in people who hasn't really done the exact same job. Why would anyone interest in working for you if he/she is already doing that job elsewhere?
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