{"id":119,"date":"2022-11-11T18:40:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T18:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kdbcoaching.com\/stageing\/?p=119"},"modified":"2024-06-03T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T17:03:00","slug":"how-to-choose-a-recruiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kdbcoaching.com\/stageing\/how-to-choose-a-recruiter\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Choose A Recruiter"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Makes a Good Recruiter, For You?<\/h1>\n

Make no mistake, I absolutely believe there are times when every candidate should consider a recruiter to help them with a job search. \u00a0 No matter if they are called recruiters, staffing consultants, executive search consultants, or headhunters, they can assist. \u00a0That said, how to choose a recruiter that is right for you is an entirely different story.<\/p>\n

Here is an excerpt and link to a blog post I wrote back in 2014 for KDB Consulting that takes you through the process of how to choose a recruiter that is right for you. \u00a0 I’ll let you in on the basic premise, you have to interview the recruiter you are thinking of. \u00a0Most importantly, you have to find out if they know your industry, how long they have been in the role, how many positions like the one you are interviewing for they have filled, and most importantly, if they have direct access to the hiring managers. \u00a0Without that information, you are acting blind and a bad recruiter can actually harm your reputation and the ultimate outcome of your job search.<\/p>\n

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From KDB Consulting | How to Choose A Recruiter: Do Recruiters Scare You? \u00a0Let Me Tell You What Scares Me More…<\/a><\/h4>\n

I\u2019ve been in agency recruiting and staffing for 20 years and quite frankly, some recruiters scare me. \u00a0 The only thing that frightens\u00a0me more than some of the recruiting horror stories I have witnessed is how few candidates ever question or interview a recruiter they choose to work with. \u00a0How to choose a good recruiter is based entirely on asking the right questions from the start.<\/p>\n

Most job seekers know very little\u00a0about the agency recruiting role or\u00a0what questions to ask to find out of the recruiter is qualified to handle their search. \u00a0I can tell you that in 20 years of cold calling candidates I never had any ask about my background or why I thought I was any good. \u00a0They never asked\u00a0about my background, time in the industry, my fill ratio, active clients or any question that would vet me as someone who could actually place them. \u00a0To this day,\u00a0I am astonished that as much time as I spent digging deeply into the backgrounds of my potential candidates, they never once asked me for any background.<\/p>\n

At some point, you may decide that working with an agency recruiter, executive search consultant, placement director, head hunter or temp recruiter is something that is part of your job search. \u00a0 Don\u2019t let the fact that even I am wary of some recruiting practices turn you away from finding a good recruiter to work with. \u00a0Good agency recruiters can absolutely help you in your search. They know their clients and can open doors for you that get you in front of end users. \u00a0They are great for practice interviews, free r\u00e9sum\u00e9 tips and many large agencies have free skills training available in the office or on your home computer.<\/p>\n

The catch is that you have to know what you are looking for in order to choose a good recruiter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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What Makes a Good Recruiter, For You? Make no mistake, I absolutely believe there are times when every candidate should consider a recruiter to help them with a job search. \u00a0 No matter if they are called recruiters, staffing consultants, executive search consultants, or headhunters, they can assist. \u00a0That said, how to choose a recruiter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,114,43],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[167,163,160,166,165,161,155,154,157,156,32,13,158,58,31,162,159,164,130,132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kdbcoaching.com\/stageing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kdbcoaching.com\/stageing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kdbcoaching.com\/stageing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kdbcoaching.com\/stageing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kdbcoaching.com\/stageing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kdbcoaching.com\/stageing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3128,"href":"https:\/\/kdbcoaching.com\/stageing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/3128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kdbcoaching.com\/stageing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kdbcoaching.com\/stageing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kdbcoaching.com\/stageing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kdbcoaching.com\/stageing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kdbcoaching.com\/stageing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}