Ticking The Boxes or Ticking Them Off

Published by People Magic
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Copyright 2011 Robert Godden

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Ticking the Boxes?
or Ticking Them Off?

The results of an international survey into what recruiters like and dislike about the candidates they interview.

Robert Godden

Principal Consultant

People Magic

© Copyright 2009 People Magic (First Edition)

© Copyright 2011 People Magic (Second Edition)

Table of Contents

Introduction

How to Avoid Annoying a Recruiter

What Really Matters

Anecdotes

Cynical or Realistic?

The Last Word

Section 1 - Introduction

The Project

Recruiters are only human. Like all humans, they can show great trust and integrity, or they can be petty and hold grudges. They can be tired and stressed or full of beans and at the top of their game.

It’s clear that when you are being interviewed, you want the recruiter in the best frame of mind possible.

With this in mind, in 2009 People Magic invited over 1000 recruiters from around the world to answer a series of questions about candidate behaviour.

The response to that survey, and our thoughts on the implications, are presented in this e-book.

If you ever want to attend a job interview and succeed; these results are essential reading.

So, who are these recruiters?

We invited a roughly even spread of experienced and less experienced, internal (company) and external (agency) recruiters.

The profile of the recruiters who responded with regard to the basic demographics did not show an even spread.

Over two-thirds of the respondents engage in professional or technical recruiting such as Accountants or Engineers (not necessarily as their only form of recruiting); about two-thirds are internal rather than agency recruiters and about two-thirds of the group have been recruiting for more than four years.

Whilst each two-thirds are presumably a different two-thirds each time, it points to these results being particularly relevant to those people being interviewed by an experienced internal recruiter for a professional job.