1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,934 Hi, this is Stephanie Maas. 2 00:00:02,369 --> 00:00:16,830 Today I wanna talk to you about working with a recruiter, and this is good counsel, whether you are a client and the recruiter is representing you, or if you're a candidate and the recruiter is representing you, and it has to do with communication. 3 00:00:17,234 --> 00:00:24,129 This is gonna sound really silly, but when you are working with a recruiter, please don't just communicate. 4 00:00:24,839 --> 00:00:26,279 Over communicate. 5 00:00:26,519 --> 00:00:28,320 And here's a couple examples of what I mean. 6 00:00:28,650 --> 00:00:33,809 So I was recently working with a client and candidly, I was actually the second recruiter to work with them. 7 00:00:34,050 --> 00:00:36,360 And they said, Hey, we, we tried everything else. 8 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:37,589 We even went with another firm. 9 00:00:37,589 --> 00:00:39,180 They weren't able to find what we were looking for. 10 00:00:39,180 --> 00:00:40,349 Can you try and help us? 11 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:41,339 I said, absolutely. 12 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:42,359 Give me four weeks. 13 00:00:42,359 --> 00:00:44,940 I'll do my best and we'll see what the market is bearing. 14 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:51,660 So in week three, I was able to find a spot on candidate for what they were looking for. 15 00:00:51,935 --> 00:00:52,985 I was very excited. 16 00:00:52,985 --> 00:00:59,824 I've been giving the client updates all along and I reach out to the client and say, Hey, I'm super excited to tell you about my candidate. 17 00:01:00,125 --> 00:01:05,675 Only downside is they are in a competitive situation as all good candidates are today. 18 00:01:05,824 --> 00:01:07,205 So timing is important. 19 00:01:07,264 --> 00:01:09,245 Please give me a call back as soon as you can. 20 00:01:10,115 --> 00:01:10,955 That was day one. 21 00:01:11,495 --> 00:01:12,125 I heard nothing. 22 00:01:12,604 --> 00:01:14,345 Day two, I heard nothing. 23 00:01:14,585 --> 00:01:16,745 3, 4, 5, nothing. 24 00:01:16,895 --> 00:01:18,755 Nothing for five days. 25 00:01:19,025 --> 00:01:19,264 So. 26 00:01:19,875 --> 00:01:28,875 Finally on the sixth day, I said, Hey, I'm not trying to bug you, but I understand by a lack of communication that you're probably not interested. 27 00:01:29,114 --> 00:01:31,995 I'd appreciate if you just let me know, but if not, that's fine. 28 00:01:31,995 --> 00:01:34,305 I'll just let the candidate know something's not going right. 29 00:01:34,514 --> 00:01:36,644 I'm never gonna dog a client out in front of a candidate. 30 00:01:36,945 --> 00:01:43,185 Anyway, the client finally did call me back and they said, oh, yeah, well, we got an internal referral and I think we're gonna move forward. 31 00:01:43,519 --> 00:01:44,449 I said, great. 32 00:01:44,570 --> 00:01:47,329 I mean, sure, I wish my candidate was getting the job. 33 00:01:47,329 --> 00:01:55,310 Of course, that's what you hired me to go do, but if you can get someone that's qualified and you're excited about without my fee, I totally get that for you. 34 00:01:55,639 --> 00:02:03,019 Where the communication would've been helpful in the meantime is here's my candidate now, feeling negative towards the organization. 35 00:02:03,255 --> 00:02:07,845 Not towards me, towards the organization because they weren't being communicative. 36 00:02:08,084 --> 00:02:23,924 Here's on the flip side, in terms of when you work with a recruiter as a candidate, I had a candidate a couple months ago say to me, Hey, I don't know if you need to know this, um, but here's a couple things I've got going on down the road that are gonna be important to me. 37 00:02:24,315 --> 00:02:30,015 One of them was a big trip that he had planned with his wife last year to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary. 38 00:02:30,105 --> 00:02:32,684 It was gonna take them out of pocket for about 12 days. 39 00:02:33,020 --> 00:02:36,680 Yeah, we need to know that that's right about the time the person was gonna start. 40 00:02:37,070 --> 00:02:41,450 And if at the 11th hour we had come up with that information, that would've been tough to share. 41 00:02:41,450 --> 00:02:55,025 Again, the client would've dealt with it, but because I knew it earlier on in the process, I was able to tell the client right up front, oh, hey, by the way, this candidate, while they'll be prepared to accept an offer, they actually won't be prepared to start until this time. 42 00:02:55,364 --> 00:02:57,105 Client said, no harm, no foul. 43 00:02:57,284 --> 00:03:04,754 So my point is, when you're not sure about, if you should be telling your recruiter something, let us be the filter for that. 44 00:03:04,904 --> 00:03:09,075 If you're not sure, tell us if we don't need the information, hey, no harm, no foul. 45 00:03:09,404 --> 00:03:14,054 Chances are, if you're even thinking it's something we should know, we probably need to know. 46 00:03:14,385 --> 00:03:17,174 And lastly, let me also say this. 47 00:03:17,444 --> 00:03:23,954 Sometimes I think the reason why recruiters aren't told things is that quite frankly, either the client. 48 00:03:24,210 --> 00:03:27,150 Or the candidate doesn't trust the recruiter. 49 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:36,060 I sure hope that's not the case with the folks that I work with, but if it is, I really don't believe that you should be working with anyone that you don't trust. 50 00:03:36,359 --> 00:03:44,940 I sign non-disclosure agreements all the time for periods of time when I'm working with a search just to ensure that I never release any confidential information. 51 00:03:45,270 --> 00:03:45,720 Hope this 52 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:47,310 helps.