Dirty LaundrySecrets of IT recruiters exposed

•IT Recruiting Firms are low cost high margin, volume driven businesses •They usually only serve a very small number of clients well

•They only make money when someone is hired

Just the facts…

•Most Recruiters don’t know much about the opportunity they are presenting to you •The Recruiter usually needs YOU, the candidate to get in the door

•Does the Recruiter even know what its like to work in IT?

•Whose best interest here?

What are they doing?

•Recruiters are in a hurry to get paid •Reply to that e-mail or voice mail fast or the opportunity will be shopped to the next employer or applicant

•The candidate always wonders what happened to the opportunity at ABC Company? – It wasn’t fast enough for the recruiter to make money

•Whose best interest here?

Speed Dating

•If you get hired you were HIGH QUALITY for the recruiter – the recruiter was lucky

•If you were not hired the first or second time… You are NOT QUALIFIED in the eyes of the Recruiter •If you are a hiring manager every resume you get is QUALITY according to the Recruiter. Do you hire them all? Do you even interview them all?

•Whose best interest here?

Quality is Job One!

•Not your Recruiter – You are a transaction and Payday to them

•Not your Recruiters’ Company – You are a Transaction and Profit Margin for them

•Not Your Future Employer – They don’t know you unless the Recruiter Says So…

•Your Family cares – They want you to be happy and fulfilled in your career

•WE CARE! – This is the reason we founded…

Who cares?