Why don’t recruiters find me a role? Call me for an interview?

As a job seeker or a new migrant, you sent out of lot of general job applications from online job boards and ad lists, expecting interviews.  You expect a big flood of interview requests; at best maybe you get a trickle of email responses, maybe one or two calls. You get back a slow or no response from recruiters and then you start disliking recruiters in general as such.

 Recruiters get a lot of bad feedback, especially in slow market. Most new migrants and job seekers expect immediate response or service in the form of an interview. But they don’t get anything, sometimes not even a call back! Assuming there is no problem with your CV then you expect you should have get a call back, but you only get a system generated reply thank you for your application email. The reason being recruitment consultants work for their clients who are corporate/industrial employers. Not many of them work for you or with your next dream job goal in mind. That’s the task of a career coach.

Traditionally recruiters are in a sales role and have big targets to reach for which they under serious pressure to make it happen. Most of them focus on finding best candidates for the role, not the other way round finding the best role for you.

 In other words they are focused on filing certain immediate roles at hand within a definite time frame. That’s why if you ask them to meet you as a candidate looking for maybe a generalist role in one or two areas, a lot of times, the response is negative. They are keen on meeting someone who is most likely to be the key or close fit for the role that they need to fill right now. Traditionally they are in a sales role and most consultants work on KPI basis with big targets to reach.

 It’s like this, a real estate agent won’t find you a house of your dreams at your exact cost, despite you briefing them, and they keep selling houses to others.  For recruiters all roles are perishable and have a use by date if they don’t fill those in time, another agency will.  Its your task to convince them you that you are the right person for the role.

So if you are a new migrant or a jobseeker, its best you contact a specialised career coach. Then the response will be very different. Things will get moving and your job search will be fruitful.