How much does one need to bend the truth in order to get a job?
August 17, 2010 by admin
Filed under Job Search
What should recruiters change so that they are truly hiring the better candidate regardless of what the resume may or may not indicate?
Herein lays the importance of working with a recruiter that actually understands the marketplace they recruit for.
If you’re working with a recruiter with an accounting background, they should know how to get a candidate to expose the last time they personally closed the books at their last job. If you’re working with a recruiter who has worked in the IT industry they will know how to get to the bottom of what skill set a candidate has in working within IT.
There are times where a candidate needs resume help. If a candidate has experience with a certain technology or process, but for some reason doesn’t speak much to it, they may need to be coached to add it to a resume. This is especially true if it’s a key point for a job they are applying to. Now of course, no candidate should be led to lie about a skill set. If in doubt, the recruiter should utilize an evaluation (test) to show the required skill. If the candidate does well it’s also an extra element they can bring up in discussion to make the client feel more assured.
When it comes down to it, sometimes the candidate believes that a specific skill set is implied in what they have been doing. There are times when they need to be coached to show a skill set, and how they have been successful in implementing it, so they can get to a phone screen with the client.
All in all, resumes don’t get jobs. They get interviews which can lead to jobs. If a recruiter is interested in long-term relationships with both their clients and their candidates they know it is not in their best interest to present candidates who are later found out to be mismatched to the role they were submitted for.
Source: Linkedin