Employers Shoot Themselves In The Foot By Recruiters

If there’s any knowledge in this world that’s worth knowing, it usually comes from experience.

Real experience is borne from maturity.

Real experience is a culmination of seeing interconnecting threads of disparate information that make up a solution.

This powerful skill isn’t available from graduates. Unfortunately, they simply are ‘qualified’ from a tertiary institution that’s typically many years behind the times, and especially so when it comes to the digital age.

Employers Doing the Sidestep Shuffle

The bottom line is both the employer and the recruitment firm are both trying desperately to gain an edge for a better bottom line.

The employer engages the recruiter with a set of hastily written employment criteria to fill an organisational gap. They do this to sidestep the bottom line impact of dedicated HR personnel to do the real hiring process.

As it turns out, this very process also sidesteps responsibility in hiring the wrong person too – blame can be easily passed to the recruiter and not someone who should be taking a real interest, for the benefit of the employers organisation.

Recruiters Just Being Recruiters

It wouldn’t be an easy task being a recruiter either.

But they are providing a service that’s based around the lowest cost since they also need to be competitive in the recruiting marketplace.

BUT they have little real interest in finding the ‘right’ person for the job. They already know they’ll be inundated with applications so they engage a first round culling process that’s typically based on some keyword analysis.

Offer up a few applicants that have the right keywords and they get paid their money.

Employers Are The REAL Losers

Welcome, Employers, to the losing game.

You’re gaining keyword applicants. You’re certainly NOT infusing your organisation with mature experience and diverse skill-sets – you lose, in the long-term.

Confession Time

The main reason for writing this post is one from sheer desperation and a recent chat to a boutique recruitment agency.

My last role saw me mindmap a new Marketing concept and take the platform through to commercial release – it was a multi-location/organisation Facebook-for-Business platform. That platform faltered due to marketing issues and a lack of clients.

Sadly, that required my services to be cut – that’s business :)

Check my CV if you have any doubts as to whether I’ve got the chops to tackle just about any managerial role – and I so love looking after teams too, with a passion.

That role ended 5 months ago and, despite my broad and diverse skill-set, I’m getting little to no traction in securing something else I can add value to.

Failing To See The Forest

You’ve got no idea the variety of roles I’ve applied for, in this time. Amazingly diverse but no cigar!

It was amusing when I started penning this post a month or so ago that shortly after, the newspapers were full of articles around how businesses were going to suffer by cutting out older workers and the experience and knowledge they have.

I’ll continue to beaver on in my SEM / SEO / Article Writing space since it’s expanding.

Ping me with your views and countless offers too hahaha

Employers Shoot Themselves In The Foot By Recruiters