I Am Too Busy To Return A Call Or Recruiters And Job Seekers Have Short Memories

This will be one of the shortest blog posts I have had and mostly so I can vent and get this topic out of my head.

I learned this lesson in the last recession, regardless of the economy always return a phone call.

Job seekers are (rightly so) complaining that recruiters and HR folks are not getting back to them.

Recruiters are (rightly so) complaining that they are getting too many calls and cannot handle the volume.

It’s the way these things go but rewind to 18 months ago when the above was reversed.

Job Seekers were getting phone calls from recruiters and feeling annoyed and intruded upon.

Recruiters were upset their calls were not being returned. “How rude...” some Recruiters were saying.

Folks, remember these times and remember how frustrating it can be.

You get what you give.

Comments

[Saleem]

I wonder we always talk about recruiters and job seekers as two different categories of people, but we forget that every recruiter must have been a job seeker at some point in time. So let’s try to come to a point where both parties can change this perspective of “being rude” to each other.
How about recruiter using such assessment tools those help not only choosing the right candidate, but also saves a lot of time! Like a recruiter (client of HireLabs) once mentioned about saving 20 hours for every 100 resumes received. Guess what. He has time to respond to more job seekers hence less frustration for both!!