Right Or Wrong: “If You Are 50+, Nobody Will Hire You Anymore”

This is a tough one. HR Directors and (most) recruiters will tell you that age makes no difference, 50+ people who have lost their job will say the contrary.

What is the truth? Are you really professionally finished as a 50+ for a corporate career?

Posted on 23 April 2012 by Jorg Stegemann in You are a candidate 14 Comments

Right Or Wrong: “Recruiters Advertise Fake Jobs”

Often right – though it is illegal to do so in some countries. Yet many agencies put ads on the net that are completely made up and neither the job nor the company exist (at least recruiters who work on success fees and who have to build a “candidate pool”).

I read and hear again and again that candidates complain that when they met their recruiter, the job “was gone”, had “just been filled” or more bluntly “does not exist” and had the aim “to attract candidates”. Read more

Posted on 16 January 2012 by Jorg Stegemann in You are a candidate, You are a hiring manager, You are a professional recruiter 12 Comments

Right Or Wrong: “Chances To Find A New Job Through A Recruiter Are 15%”

My wife told me not to state this number as it might not generate business for me but the contrary. But she also says on many other occasions that I always do what I want anyway so here we go: Read more

Posted on 24 October 2011 by Jorg Stegemann in You are a candidate 36 Comments

Right Or Wrong: “Headhunters Have Access To Candidates You’d Never Meet”

True.

Headhunting is not only getting candidates from your competitors. If the headhunter has access to the hidden job market, he also has contact to its’ equivalent: the candidates that are not actively looking. Read more

Posted on 27 June 2011 by Jorg Stegemann in You are a hiring manager, You are a professional recruiter 5 Comments

Right Or Wrong: “Headhunters Are Only For Executives”

False of course.

It is not the salary level or the experience but the complexity of the job that will determine whether a headhunter is needed to fill the job or not. If a job is on staff level but Hungarian, Bushman language and a Feng-Shui certification are must-criteria (no, I won’t accept this assignment) this would in theory be a search a company would want to give to a headhunter as chances to fill this job by their own means are very low. Read more

Posted on 30 May 2011 by Jorg Stegemann in You are a candidate, You are a hiring manager, You are a professional recruiter 2 Comments

Right Or Wrong: “Never Contact A Headhunter Yourself”

Wrong.

The proof is that 95% of the executive search firms, even the global top 5 headhunters Egon Zehnder, Russel Reynolds, Heidrick Struggles, Odgers Berndtson and Korn/ Ferry, have an expensive eRecruitment system on their homepage where you can upload your CV.

Posted on 17 January 2011 by Jorg Stegemann in You are a candidate, You are a professional recruiter Leave a comment

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