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What Prospects & Candidates Say About Recruiting Calls

Submitted by Recruiterguy from Google Reader

Jun 03, 2009

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Some of you know I have a Recruiting Call Hall of Shame.

Essentially this is a grouping of voice mails I have received from recruiters trying to recruit me or looking to network for referrals. Let me tell you they are absolutely terrible.

Embarrassing really.

I really want to post clips of these calls on the blog so that all can join in my complete and utter disgust with how bad so many recruiters are at making calls. My attorney tells me that would be a bad idea because if someone recognizes their voice on the call it could mean legal trouble.

If these calls weren’t real they would be funny.

Late last week I talked about all the candidate data BFC has been gathering since our founding in 2006. From this data I introduced a series of posts on What Prospects & Candidates Say about Recruiters. If you are interested in all the data and the basics of who exactly we gathered the data from please go back and read that introductory post.

There is really no way to cover this topic and the data in 500 words or less so please forgive the length of this post.

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