Job Agents Are Not Responding

aec on 03/03/2023 - 12:06
Last edited 03/03/2023 - 12:18 by 1 other user

I received a message very recently from a woman working for HUNTER EXECUTIVE.
Basically they are searching for cadidates for a job and asked me if i would be interested. Then, i called back,not answered; I left a message on linkedin, not responded; I replied an email to her, again not responded.

It is literally WTF?!

Some close friends (in different industries and dealing with different job agents) also had similar experience. Seriously, why do these people waste others' time? As a minimum, they can send a quick message, such as "i will call you back later" (though they probably will never call you back).

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Comments

  • Master Bates on 03/03/2023 - 12:10

    …better or worse than Estate Agents?

    • techno2000 on 03/03/2023 - 12:59
      +7

      Job Agents,Real Estate agents,Used car salesmen.

      These are the scum of the earth.

      • djones145 on 03/03/2023 - 13:12
        -1

        dont forget ozbargain forum trolls!

      • CurlCurl on 03/03/2023 - 13:53

        Any car salesperson, male or female.

      • MrThing on 03/03/2023 - 17:38

        this is a comment i can get behind

  • Jimothy Wongingtons on 03/03/2023 - 12:18
    +9

    Arbitrary kpi for number of phone calls/spam per hour

    or

    job already filled/ better candidates found?

  • randombrick on 03/03/2023 - 12:38
    +2

    Despite how they try and portray themselves on LinkedIn, etc. (i.e. the most amazing occupation, greatest thing for business & people, live to serve the world, etc.) most recruitment agents are useless (to put it mildly).

    Add "Hunter Executive" to your blacklist and carry on.

    • Donaldhump on 03/03/2023 - 14:24
      +4

      LinkedIn is nothing but complete utter waffle and crap now. Everything on there is total bs. People cutting and pasting crap and circle jerking their wonderful lives and kids. Man I hate it all that crap, what the hell what does your kids have to do with LinkedIn

  • bobbified on 03/03/2023 - 12:46
    +1

    I received a message very recently…

    How recently?

    Recruiters are glorified sales agents. They get paid on job placement commissions. Their aim is to get resumes that meet the requirements of whatever roles they have on their books and send them in in the hope that that person gets the role. Not saying it's right, but if you don't meet their requirements, you're pretty much "worthless" in their eyes and they just move on.

    Roles often get filled within a matter of days. So if your definition of "recently" is anything more than a few days, it's possible they've already filled that role or they've found someone that they think has a better chance.

    • aec on 03/03/2023 - 13:37

      How recently? very recently. She reached out to me, not the other way around. She saw my profile, so she should have already judged if i would be a suitable candidate before she contacted me. This is a very senior technical position. I know there are not many people at this level available in the market.

      • bobbified on 03/03/2023 - 14:58

        How recently? very recently.

        I'll assume a week or more then, before you responded.

        When they reached out to you, they're likely to have reached out to at least another candidate that they see as suitable. I used to be in a unique tech role as well and it was a relatively small community in Australia, spread across a small number of large companies. People would just go back and forth in between to look for their next payrise. We'd always know which recruiters have roles available at which company because they would contact a few people at the same time. So, "not many people" doesn't really mean much when it comes to filling roles.

        Also, it's possible that they found someone with even more experience or a more suitable experience background.

        You'll probably never know the true reason. Do what I do - if random people message me and I'm not interested, sometimes I just don't reply. The only time I might reply (even when I'm not interested) is if the message has obviously been written for me (not just a generic message where they change the name and send it to 50 people).

  • BewareOfThe Dog on 03/03/2023 - 12:59

    I got called by one Employer who saw my profile, but they wanted someone for Christmas. I said I had to give 4 weeks notice. The same job just came up last week. I applied, and have already been knocked back.

  • Ocker on 03/03/2023 - 13:00
    +2

    Yep, right up there with real estate agents and car sales people. Only in it for one person - themselves.

  • netjock on 03/03/2023 - 13:02

    Sometimes it is juniors trying to identify candidates to pass onto more senior recruiters. Sometimes they screw up and approach the wrong people. Would be nice to get a response but unfortunately it is most likely due to a stuff up at their end.

  • thatonethere on 03/03/2023 - 13:35

    recruiters often build up a herd of potential candidates even if they have no job

    Sometimes they find extra people even though they have a single candidate just so it looks like there is choice.

  • Drakesy on 03/03/2023 - 13:37
    +1

    Maybe they found the candidate in the mean time?

    Don't chase them, make them chase you.

  • freefall101 on 03/03/2023 - 13:49

    Maybe they're off sick or on leave? How long has it been since you contacted them?

    They're human at the end of the day, they prioritise their work too. Maybe it's their Friday afternoon task to email everyone back that they missed through the week.

  • Donaldhump on 03/03/2023 - 14:20
    +4

    job agents r u best friend when they need a job filled (a sale).
    they don't give a sht about you, and nor should you give a sht about them

    if the agent cant be assed replying to you phone call, then why bother chasing them, just ignore them and move on. No different to dating

    the same reason when i get bombarded with agents that cant even look up where I live or what I do i just ignore

    yet you work through them and they take 20% of your wage etc and then they buy you a $20 box of chocolates for xmas.

    • MeesusEff on 03/03/2023 - 16:06

      I've never gotten anything from my agents and I was a contractor for 8 years 😮

  • tallkid123 on 03/03/2023 - 16:50
    -1

    I only ever respond to internal recruiters - HR/P&C from usually big companies that inmail me on LinkedIn.

    External recruiters are almost always ignored. Unless I tell them I'm transitioning away from whatever roles they have so they can stop annoying me.

    • freefall101 on 04/03/2023 - 11:19

      I work with internal recruitment teams at large companies, external recruiters are a pain in the arse to us as well. They see us put a job up and go directly to the hiring manager with a candidate and get them to sign off on a contract without anyone else knowing about it. Most of the time we've been in contact with the absolutely special candidate they have anyway (our team spend their entire life looking at jobs for just this company, they know of pretty much every specialist that's suitable).

      These agencies spend more time researching who is who in companies than anything else, it's an absolute pain in the neck and costs a fortune. Our internal recruiters can fill 10-20 roles a month and get zero bonus, the external ones fill one or two, charge $30k for it and make bank.

      Plenty of stories of kickbacks as well in the industry. External recruiting has its place for small companies that have no internal team, but even then there are companies they can engage on a fixed fee to do a bunch of placements a year at a much lower price than going out and paying $20-30k each role.

  • kmwa on 03/03/2023 - 18:28

    The recruiter probably saw the grammar, spelling, and attention to detail in your messages, and decided you were not a suitable candidate.
    And why do you think that having her waste your time entitles you to waste mine?
    Ah yes, that's it, entitlement.

  • Sinnerator on 04/03/2023 - 09:43

    HR agents are the lowest of the low.
    If there was a politician, a used carsalesman and someone from HR all on fire and I only had 2 pisses left the HR chump would burn.

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