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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...

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...