Recruitment Company: Myth or Reality?

Among the candidates, the myth is often circulated that it is a waste of time to turn to a recruitment company. These preconceptions often have their source in isolated negative experiences or in rejecting their CV for a certain position.

Before drawing these conclusions, it is important to better understand how a recruitment company works and why it is to the advantage of candidates to work with us.

A recruitment company understands the needs of both clients and candidates

Before starting a search for a position, a good recruiter thoroughly documents the client's expectations, position responsibilities, and skills that a candidate must have. Thus, the candidates we come in contact with for the positions being worked on are evaluated according to some stable and objective criteria.

Why is the objective evaluation of the candidate to his advantage? It is human nature to seek to be accepted, to have our image of ourselves confirmed, just as it is natural, and to be reluctant when it comes to rejection.

The mechanism we often use to protect our ego in the event of rejection is to attribute the failure of external factors to us. If we look for a job and are rejected, we tend to blame the person who evaluated us and rejected us. It is important to understand that the activity of a recruiter is one of mediation, and its purpose is to help both the client and the candidate. Now, if we analyze the negative feedback objectively, we can realize that the answer is also to our advantage, as candidates.

First of all, it is an alarm signal about the aspects that need to be improved, which in the future will increase our chances to obtain a similar position. Second, rejection is an indicator that you, as an individual, simply do not fit into the rules and culture of the company. It is easier, but also more likely to accept that there is a lack of compatibility in the middle, and if you had gone further it would have been a step back in terms of your professional satisfaction.

Therefore, rejection is beneficial, because it means that we do not fit the job context that we are looking for to be employed, and the fact that we go further shows that you meet several attributes that the employer is looking for.

A recruiting firm is not trying to enrich its database but is trying to connect you with the right job.

People who are looking for a job often want things to happen quickly. What you don't know is that recruiters want the same thing, but there are a lot of variables that need to be taken into account, and the database is a mechanism that comes to our aid, not an end in itself.

Completing the database helps us keep track of the people we came in contact with, but more than that, it helps us know what we talked to them about and what they want.

All this information that reaches us helps you as a candidate to be directed and recommended for the right job for you. Of course, this takes time, but the more information we have about you, the easier it will be for us to get back to the right job.

As a recruitment company, we try to offer solutions and support to the candidates we have come in contact with.

Suppose you came to a recruiting company and managed to get a job with it. This is the result that both the candidate and the recruiter want to achieve.

Does the recruiter's job end here? No, as recruiters we try to make sure that the person recommended to our client finds what he was promised and we want to know that he has adapted to the conditions of the new job. To evaluate these details, we keep in touch with our candidates, we contact them to find out their feedback after the initial discussions with the client, but also after hiring.

This helps us to calibrate our searches and to adapt as well as possible to the needs of the candidates. In addition, if the candidate has questions, wants to mediate certain discussions with the employer, or needs support, we are ready to give it to him.

If the collaboration is a success, the candidate's feedback allows us to help other people who are looking for a suitable job. If the collaboration does not have the desired result by the candidate, we try to find solutions together with him, but also with the client, to meet his expectations and to meet his needs.