How Recruiters Steal Your Best People: They Get Fed Up with Being Lied to
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Admit it. There are times you, your managers, everyone lies to people.
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Recruiters are able to steal your best people, because the person becomes fed up with being lied to all the time. What do I mean? It starts in the interview process where the role’s describe one way, the culture is described one way, and the reality is something different.
Some people will put up with it for a while, but then, the lies start to grind them down and eventually, one day they say, ‘I’m tired of being lied to,’ and the phone rings or they get a text and suddenly they’re listening to a recruiter who’s whispering sweet nothings in their ear.
The problem isn’t the recruiter. The problem is you and the disconnect between what people are being told and what reality is. Get your act together and tell people the truth and stop lying to them.
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I’m a woman who lived in the ghetto all my life, still here. I wanted to join the Marines out of college. But my high school didn’t even teach me about scholarships, and I could’ve EASILY gotten one from my talent of writing poetry and short stories, and my academics was pretty good. Then I ended up with schizophrenia right out of high school, so ALL was out for me. I thought having a solid education and joining the Marines will set me up for the rest of my life. But……. I was LIED TO, and the way my high school life was and the people feeding me drugs without my consent drove me to SSI for the rest of my life/medications. It’s messed up.
The impact that Glassdoor has had on job hunting has been nothing short of game changing. To prep for any round of interview you used to have to invest hours of time going through annual reports, and any industry gossip sites. Now, I can see what existing and departing employees say about a company.
Why is is this relevant for the topic of “your best people being siphoned off”? Simple – in any geographically locked region there is a natural hierarchy of employers, with the most desirable employers being the hardest to get hired into (via a recruiter) on an “invitation-only” basis. The employers with the highest turnover either don’t care (M&A delivers them free cannon fodder), or don’t need to care (outsourcing and offshoring), the aspiring few overcompensate with the highest salaries and are super-aggressive with poaching.
Any smart employee will optimize for the best employer or the highest salary, so I suggest the recruiter is as much being played as a player. It matters whether the recruiter works for Adecco or a boutique agency with clients such as a presidential library, and whether they place directly or simply through a captive agency.
Thank you for the excellent contribution to the topic