Tips for Job Seekers (1) - Five Insights on Engaging a Recruitment Agency
1. What cannot be done by yourself but a recruitment agency
Recruitment Agencies are the Subject Matter Experts in job placement. Professional consultants at outstanding recruitment agencies will be able to pick up your strengths and core competitiveness of you from your resume and then massage your writing and wordings to make your resume shine. Besides, recruitment agencies always have established a relationship with the HR department or the hiring managers of the employer side hence agencies normally know more about the job requirements and company culture than you do.
2. Best practice in working with recruitment agencies
When discussing your resume and your career aspirations with recruitment agencies you should be candid and honest. This will help the agencies to better present you before the employer when an opportunity comes along. Besides, if you are talking with several recruitment agencies at the same period you should notify everyone of them to give them a general picture about how to present you and avoid embarrassment. Consultants would appreciate knowing the facts that you have submitted yourself somewhere else (however, you don't have to expose every detail) - and they would also like to know if you have submitted yourself for the position directly. If you have, recruitment agencies won't represent you for that job.
3. Preparation for an interview with a recruitment agency
Make it as a dress-run. Check the background of the opening position and the hiring company. Put on an appropriate outfit. Be prepared to give a 5-minutes self-introduction. Get ready to be asked questions like why you think yourself a good fit for the job. Plan about questions to ask during the interview. Lastly, make sure you know what is the next step the agency will do for you.
4. Your follow-up action when the consultant at the recruitment agency asks you to edit your resume
If you are a fresh graduate you will need to find way-out to turn your lack of actual working experience into something positive and relevant for the job. If you have been working with a single employer for long but you desire a change you may consider to highlight your career development with your previous/current employer and emphasize that loyalty is one of your strengths.
3. Preparation for an interview with a recruitment agency
Make it as a dress-run. Check the background of the opening position and the hiring company. Put on an appropriate outfit. Be prepared to give a 5-minutes self-introduction. Get ready to be asked questions like why you think yourself a good fit for the job. Plan about questions to ask during the interview. Lastly, make sure you know what is the next step the agency will do for you.
4. Your follow-up action when the consultant at the recruitment agency asks you to edit your resume
If you are a fresh graduate you will need to find way-out to turn your lack of actual working experience into something positive and relevant for the job. If you have been working with a single employer for long but you desire a change you may consider to highlight your career development with your previous/current employer and emphasize that loyalty is one of your strengths.
5. Negotiating an offer
A professional recruitment consultant will give realistic advice to you and negotiate on your behalf with the employer. The consultant will work to eliminate gaps and close the deal because in most instances a recruitment agency don't get the consultancy fee unless and until a good and lasting match is done.
A professional recruitment consultant will give realistic advice to you and negotiate on your behalf with the employer. The consultant will work to eliminate gaps and close the deal because in most instances a recruitment agency don't get the consultancy fee unless and until a good and lasting match is done.
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