Nowadays, headhunters in the workplace are rampant and uneven. It seems that those who have worked for more than 3 years have never been harassed by headhunters, and they are all mixed up by themselves.
Indeed, headhunting companies have mushroomed in recent years, and the threshold for recruitment is getting lower and lower, which has a tendency to replace HR.
From the personal work needs, I sometimes log on to the personal account of the recruitment website. But basically, as long as I log in, many headhunters will call me for a while and ask me if I want to change my job and what my personal expectations are. Sometimes I never get tired of hearing them.
Although I am also a recruiter and often tell myself to be friendly to potential partners, I am really impatient with the professionalism and experience of some headhunting consultants, because I think it is too unprofessional. If I am a job seeker, I don't know if I am lucky or sad to get such a headhunting consultant.
So it is really meaningful to choose a reliable headhunting consultant from a personal point of view.
Of course, before talking about this issue, it is the first premise for headhunting consultants to find themselves. If you have been working for several years, but haven't found a headhunter who recommends job opportunities, then you really need to find problems from yourself. This problem needs to be discussed separately later. Today, I only talk about how to identify and choose a reliable headhunting consultant.
1, headhunting consultant, not headhunting company. For individuals, the significance of contacting excellent headhunting consultants is far greater than including your resume in the headhunting company in the talent pool. Moreover, in the headhunting industry, consultants are basically the biggest face of a headhunting company. Individuals don't have to bother to find a reliable headhunting company, and at the same time, they don't have to worry too much about the company or platform where the headhunter is located during the contact with headhunters. What's more, just because a headhunting consultant belongs to a big company, we can't ignore the screening of his personal ability and quality. Of course, having said so much does not mean that individuals can completely ignore headhunting companies. Don't misinterpret. It is still the most basic to check the company formally.
2. Reliable headhunting consultant characteristics. When calling an individual, the headhunting consultant basically introduces the topic by opening remarks such as whether he has the idea of changing platforms, and then guides the individual to gradually enter his own speech routine. However, if you are completely immersed in this kind of communication, I can guarantee that during this call, you are basically throwing out information, and you receive very little information, let alone screening consultants.
Therefore, I personally suggest that in the communication with headhunters, if you are not interested, you can choose to end the conversation as soon as possible or contact with WeChat or QQ instead. If you are interested, you need to pay attention to the rotation of conversation roles in communication, both active inquiry and passive listening are needed. Below I list a few headhunting features that I personally think are more reliable, and I can make certain judgments based on them:
1) Knowledgeable, headhunters are not all-rounders, and it is impossible to know everything. However, since you are ready to explore, you must know your own industry, otherwise it will be like a chicken telling a duck. Therefore, throwing out some professional terms of the industry, asking headhunters about the industry and competitive companies, and talking about their understanding and insight into the general trend of the industry can help you judge whether you are a headhunting consultant. If you fail the test, of course, you don't have to refuse and hang up. You can consider establishing follow-up contact maintenance.
2) Know how to listen. A good headhunting consultant must be a good listener. On the contrary, in communication, he talks big and sells blindly, just like the sales of end products. Even if you interrupt inadvertently in the process of speaking, or have a strong expert attitude, you basically don't need to communicate.
3) Understand planning. By chatting with excellent headhunting consultants, you can increase your understanding of career planning, understand the changing trend of talents in the industry, and give personal career suggestions and opinions, even if he fails to recruit you. Including understanding your all-round information, take the initiative to put forward the reasons and reasons why the operating position is lower than or not in line with you.
4) I know respect. Let's start with an experience. I once recruited a middle management position through headhunting. The headhunters of the two companies recommended the same candidate to me one after another. Before providing me with the contact information of the candidate, I can only judge which company the candidate has effectively recommended by the chronological order of the email. However, the rejected headhunting company offered me all kinds of evidences to prove that the candidate had only recently received a communication call from her job intention, that is to say, the headhunting consultant who sent the resume first did not ask the candidate's consent. In order to avoid mistakes, I not only communicated with the candidate himself, but also asked the headhunting consultant who judged that the resume was valid to provide communication records and certificates. In the end, because he didn't know how to respect the candidate's headhunting consultant, he dared not cooperate as an employer and suspended the cooperation agreement with the company.
5) Understanding recruitment includes two meanings. First, according to their professional experience and information, objectively evaluate their strengths and weaknesses from the perspective of employers, which will be continuously verified in the follow-up process; The second is to help you with counseling and suggestions before the interview, especially to repair the details to ensure that you can perfectly present your personal advantages and advantages.
3. Several performances of unreliable headhunting consultants. If you can't grasp the above characteristics well, you can also observe and prove it from the following unreliable performance.
1) The details are sloppy, such as not updating your resume in time, including salary expectations and other information, which leads to obstacles in subsequent communication with the employer or loss of confidence in the enterprise. It comes down to the details because these questions are what a headhunting consultant should do before preparing to recommend you. When I talked with the candidate about the offer, the candidate suggested that my resume information was incomplete or wrong, and his salary expectation was not what was written on my resume.
2) Don't plan hiking. An expert who often chats with you and shares career plans and suggestions is a headhunting consultant who has no career plans at all. I suggest you leave as soon as possible. Although the turnover rate of headhunting industry is generally high, there is also a so-called industry average. Of course, this unreliable is to judge the headhunting consultant who has maintained long-term communication with you.
3) bonus hunter once had a subordinate who was poached by a headhunting consultant. Although it's a pity, he has always blessed his development. But later I heard that this subordinate was recommended by the consultant for four platforms in three years. Although his status and income continued to increase, his career soon stopped. Therefore, consultants like bonus hunter also advise you to stay away.
4) Take your positions. As mentioned above, a reliable headhunting consultant will help you with interview counseling and suggestions, show your better personal image and ability, and improve the interview pass rate. However, headhunting consultants are not gunmen, and such things must be resolutely resisted. If your counselor is too enthusiastic to help, it is beyond your psychological tolerance, and even proposes fraud, then stay away.
Through this two-way evaluation of reliable characteristics and unreliable performance, I believe it can help some people, improve their ability to identify headhunting consultants, and realize the continuous leap of their career.
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