Tip1A

2) A recruiter can provide the hiring manager information about you that is not on your resume.

What a recruiter knows about you can be shared with the hiring manager. This can relate to specific skills that are not detailed on the resume, references that have been checked, your work ethic, attitude and other various tidbits which can mean a lot to a hiring manager. The resume is only meant to be a brief summary including your education, work experience and accomplishments. The bottom line is if a recruiter knows their clients well, they can get you an interview.

Recruiting 101 - Tip 1

Over the next several days I am going to share advantages and disadvantages of working with a recruiter. If you have worked with recruiters, you likely have experienced some of these. I welcome your comments.

Some of you have had great experiences working with recruiters and unfortunately others have had some very bad experiences. There are a lot more advantages as well as disadvantages I could have written about, but here are a few that likely hit home.

Advantages of working with a recruiter:

1) Recruiters know about jobs that are not posted on company websites or on job boards.

Many companies don’t have the time or resources to fill all of their open positions. Therefore they use recruiting firms to assist in the process. This has changed over the years with job sites; Monster, Careerbuilder, HotJobs, etc. Many companies will post their openings on their company website and/or one of these job sites. However many companies do a very poor job of managing responses they get, and some companies don’t even manage them at all which makes me wonder why they even bother posting them. How many times have you submitted your resume directly to a company website or a job site posting and not heard back?

Recruiting 101

Hi, my name is Brian Courtney. I started recruiting/headhunting in 1998 working for a small recruiting firm based out of Detroit. I left to start up my own recruiting firm, The Courtney Group Inc. 3 years later. We celebrated our 7^th Birthday this past March. 10 years in recruiting this September, where does time go?!

Over the upcoming months I will be posting information which is intended to benefit you when in a job search and looking to advance your career. Also, how to effectively work with recruiters or avoid those that cannot help you. My expertise in this area comes from the fact I have worked in industry 14 years as an engineer (mostly quality). Having worked for 5 companies I know when recruiters had my best interest in mind and those that were self serving. I’ve seen the Good, Bad, and sometimes Ugly world of recruiting. I will share both sides of the story from a recruiter/applicant perspective and bring you unbiased insight.

Some of you have had great experiences working with recruiters and unfortunately others have had some very bad experiences. I will do what I can to provide information to make sure that you don’t have any of those “ugly” experiences. Stay tuned to more information I believe you will find valuable. Your comments and suggestions are always appreciated.