Soap Box: Bad Recruitment Practices

Posted in General News

If there’s one thing that gets our goat, ruffles our feathers, really gets us hot-under the collar, then it’s bad recruitment practices.

We’re talking fake adverts. We’re talking scattergun CVs. We’re talking practices that you, the candidate or client, should be aware of.

In the first edition of ‘the soap-box’ (though we could so easily have called it ‘the rant’) we’re letting rip. Allow us to let off steam…

We understand that times are tough. Leaner and meaner? You told us yourself. But desperate recruitment companies are signing up candidates and, rather than screening a candidate so they can correctly match their skill set to the job opportunity, are instead sending their CV to their entire contact list! Financial! Corporate! It doesn’t matter. Consumer! Billy on reception! What the heck? NASA Space Station! (Ok, maybe not there, but you get the picture…)

Not only does this reflect badly on candidates who appear as though they haven’t done their homework, it also makes unwitting clients feel they have no choice but to accept the candidate through a certain agency simply because they got there first.

On behalf of the clients who have approached us asking for advice, let us put your minds at rest. Such business practices are immoral and, in terms of the law, no client needs to accept any CV whoever they have been approached by UNTIL TERMS OF BUSINESS HAVE BEEN AGREED WITH THAT CONSULTANCY.

There. Glad we cleared that one up…

Are there any recruitment or communications issues that you’d like us to focus on in coming editions? Any burning issues? Let us know at theword@the-works.co.uk or tel. 020 7559 6690.