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Tips for Interviewing with Recruitment Agencies
Key tips for using Recruitment Agencies:
• Treat your first meeting with a Recruitment agency as a first round interview. It is just as important to impress a recruitment consultant as it is to impress an employer they send you to.
• It is important to use the time with a recruitment consultant to impress, rapport build, and let them interview while at the same time being clear about your own “checklist” re what you want and want to avoid from your next role.
• At the end of the agency interview always ask any questions which may benefit you i.e. what is the market like? Are you comfortable with my salary expectation? How would you rate me? What is your recruiting approach – ie Reactive to roles coming in or Strategic and targeted ?
• Do not use this time to rant about the market or the struggles you are having .Instead be clear as to what you are seeking before you go to a recruitment agent.
TIPS for working with all the channels open to a job hunter - i.e. Job Sites/ Agencies/Executive Search & Selection Houses/ Direct Applications etc.
• It is important to use all of these channels but in moderation.
• Select no more than 3 key agencies who you feel are working hard on your behalf and showing enthusiasm about your skills/ experience level and have the jobs on their database or else are willing to take a strategic approach to finding you a job.
The key to a job search is to be in control of where your Curriculum Vitae is going and who is representing you:
Tips:
• Keep a notebook so you know where you are being sent.
• Build very close relationships with key agents who you speak to at least twice a week via mail or phone and more importantly let them know that you are being very selective about who represents you. This will impress as it shows your skills in being strategic and focused, and applies to all levels of job hunter.
• Do not forgot it can also benefit and especially at a more senior level if you do your own research re companies that interest you and speak with a key consultant to do the “sell on your behalf” to these companies. Again though, it’s up to you to impress them!
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