How can Candidates decide which Recruiters are worth talking to?

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Job boards have become very popular over the past 10 years or so, but like most things that achieve critical mass, with that comes a very discernible drop in quality.

Most notably, the quality of the advertising (the copy, the duplications, etc..) and the quality of the candidates (unqualified, too active, no visa, etc..)

However, in this article I’d like to explore the quality of the recruiter.

Whilst there are many recruiters who complain that the quality of candidates has venezuela phone number resource declined in recent years, there are probably many more candidates that would level that same accusation at recruiters.

The most common accusation candidates level at recruiters is that they receive lots of calls, but then get very little follow-up. They’re also often accused of not knowing very much about the hiring company – and that’s assuming they will even disclose the hiring company’s identity, which most don’t.

So how can you, the candidate, wrestle back control from these recruiters who waste your time?

First, you have to understand who they are.

There are fundamentally four types of recruiter that might call you after seeing your profile on a job board or on LinkedIn. I’ll rank them in order of how seriously you should take them:

1. Inhouse Recruiters

2. Agency Recruiters who own the vacancy they want to talk to you about.

3. Agency Recruiters who don’t own the vacancy.

4. Agency Recruiters who are idiots.

Let's take a closer look.

Inhouse Recruiters
There are two things that elevate these kinds of recruiters over the others. They’re calling you about a job they HAVE to fill and they’re calling you from a company that they should know quite a lot about.

All calls from these types of recruiters should be entertained. If you're unsure if they're inhouse recruiters when they call - just ask them.