🚨 Attention Recruiters: Quality Over Quantity! 🚨 When did recruitment become about quantity over quality? Lately, I've been approached by about eight different recruiters in just the past couple of weeks. The messages? Either asking me to work on my "open vacancies" (I'm not currently employed) or pitching roles completely irrelevant to my experience and expertise. I get it - recruitment is tough, and sometimes group messaging is necessary, especially for those new to the field. But when you take the time to personalise a message, shouldn't it at least be relevant? Here's the deal: if you’re not reviewing profiles before reaching out, you're not just wasting my time, you're hurting your own credibility. Personally, I blacklist recruiters who don’t take the time to understand my background. What about you? How do you handle these irrelevant messages? Let's aim for better connections and smarter outreach! 🤝 #Recruitment #Networking #LinkedInTips #ProfessionalConnections
It's a shame hearing stuff like this. The sad thing is that they actually create work for themselves by going with the volume bulk messaging approach. My ratios are always low, I have to speak with fewer people, and customers have to review less, and interview less, it just works better for everyone. I think a lot of it comes from a lack of knowledge or understanding, rather than being lazy (we know some are just lazy). My ratios are low because I know the markets, I know exactly what I am looking for, and I know good when I see it. But that comes from experience, in my case 23 years. If junior people are sourcing, and tagging you in because they are not sure I think we are better off educating than blocking, at least the first time around.
The culture of most recruitment agencies has always been to prioritise quantity over quality. They're too busy prospecting for new clients to take too much notice of their marketing.
My response (if any.....) depends on my level of narkiness at that point in time......
100% BLOCK. It's lazy recruitment.
Should have called me mate, I placed you when we were still flicking through EPGs 😊🤣
I have a cut and paste response. It makes it clear that I'm a bad prospect for contingent recruiters, they don't waste their time keeping me on a regular call list, and I don't waste my time having to answer questions. Win win.
Thoughtful, tailored messaging takes time and well… thought. Most of which still get ignored. But it’s still the best way all round.
I would say that in recent years, this has changed and more recruitment companies are trying to focus more on quality and building a long term relationship than 'quick wins'. Hopefully this trend will continue 🧡
Well said Jay.
Putting people first and making a difference in the world of talent.
3wI totally agree and want all my messages to be as personal and relevant as possible, it takes time looking at each profile individually but why wouldn't you take that time to get it right? How do I respond to the ones I get.... ignore and delete for me 😂