Re:Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter
by sebzim4500 on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @02:24PM
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Does this blame shifting really happen though? I've never seen recruiters get blamed for a bad hire. I've seen them get blamed for sending people that fail at the first interview though.
Re:Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter
by fecak on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @02:47PM
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A bad hire isn't on a recruiter unless they are basically lying to the employer about the hire's credentials or background, and even then it's the employer's job to vet what is being said.
Re:Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter
by weq on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @11:46PM
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Companies are stupid. Recruiters talk them into bad hires all the time, then there candidate gets a job, experience, and they get to replace them the following year, placing another person with the original company and moving the other candidate to the next.
Re:Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter
by wheresmycraisin on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @07:06PM
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That's assuming the employer has infinite time and resources to interview and vet candidates. They don't, they are overwhelmed, and it's supposedly the recruiters job to make it easier, yet most seem completely clueless and useless.
Re:Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter
by fecak on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @04:44AM
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I said bad "hire", not bad "interview" - this was by design. If a company makes a bad hire, it's not (generally) because the candidate was presented, but rather a flaw in their interview and vetting process. The "how" of the candidate appearing is mostly irrelevant at that point.
Re:Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter
by makeitdouble on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @06:26PM
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I’ve only seen the blame shifting work at another layer: HR dept telling us that they made their best by engaging a recruiting firm, they can do us a favor by finding other recruiters, but it’s not on them if all the candidates we get sent are mismatched.
But, if the company hires a few people they're unhappy with through a recruiter (which is bound to happen from random chance no matter how they hire), they have someone to blame. They can switch to another recruiter, and assure their further-ups that the problem has been addressed.
There are many corporate roles that are mostly about providing blame-shifting opportunities, but outsourced recruiting is an unusually pure one. Along with "networking"-logrolling, it's one of the things which I really can't stand about working in software development, and on darker days they makes me wonder if I shouldn't go be a hermit in a cabin in the woods or something instead.