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Candidate trolls They wreck the recruiting process, and a lot of them want a great offer to use as leverage for a raise where they already work.
R emember how recruiters used to sneak up and wow candidates with amazing opportunities? Those fantastic jobs still exist and are easy to sell. But when recruiters fail to follow-up with candidates because firms decline for one reason or another, bad things happen. Now candidates are striking back by trolling recruiters more savagely than ever. They’re the real deal in recruiting nightmare scenarios, and it’s pure annoyance – an adrenaline rocket of disappointment that explodes on email contact.
Chris Patton RECRUITING NOTES
motion by cold calling and InMails. But when these cultures don’t match, when candidates don’t get the advertised opportunity, or when they show their true colors, there’s a body count. one reason or another, bad things happen. Now candidates are striking back by trolling recruiters more savagely than ever.” “When recruiters fail to follow-up with candidates because firms decline for
Wait, say the skeptical, seasoned recruiters. Isn’t this about the lack of quality candidates, recruiters failing to be direct, and choosing silent indifference when there’s not a next step in the hiring process? Yes, it’s that, too. And yet these trolls – in turn not responding when they’re needed most – can temporarily crash the recruiting process beyond the borders of nihilism. Troll candidates have found something they love about this tale, as it unfolds within an online world gone crazy, of firms looking to expand business sectors. The hiring and recruiting process can be deliriously fast and fun, a wonderful match of individual and team cultures set in perpetual
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THE ZWEIG LETTER March 20, 2017, ISSUE 1192
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