Remember Karma When You Job Hunt

Good Day Jeff. Hope all is well. I know my response is over 5 years late as I am just now coming across this video upon my own job hunt. I just wanted to offer a different perspective from the candidates’s point of view. I just recently had this same situation occur to me, except I was in the shoes of the candidate. I sent out a message through LinkedIn to a job recruiter for a company that I was interested in working with. That recruiter, then, reached out to me and stated that she had forwarded my information over to a colleague who would be willing to help me in my job search and that the recruiter would be in touch with me very soon. Well, about 4 weeks passed without me having heard anything from the referred colleague so I decided to conduct my very own job hunt with or without the help of that recruiter. So, I found some part time work which would allow me to conduct my job search as well as to go on interviews for full time employment. By the time that I was able to hear back from the recruiter, I was able to snag 2 interviews for positions that I applied for and was interested in. The recruiter wanted to schedule a interview and meeting within the same day or following business day which was not possible due to me having 1 interview within the same day and having to work the following day. We agreed to reschedule the meeting on a day that worked better for the recruiter, but was a day in which I was scheduled to work and only left me about an hour to get home from work and prepare for the interview, which I still agreed due to it being a online Skype interview which made things more convenient. I ended up arriving to the meeting about 15 mins late due to being held up at work. During the interview the recruiter wanted to schedule me for an interview with the client the following day which was a 2 hr commute from my home and very little pay that didn’t compensate for the commute and gas mileage. I accepted to do the interview initially because I knew that she was either a crappy recruiter or that she was throwing anything my way that no other candidate wanted or refused and that this would be my last meeting with her. Luckily, later that evening, I received an email for a position that I had interviewed for and was being offered the job as well as a congratulatory phone call and the company wanted me to start the following day. I then emailed that recruiter to let her know that I would not be able to make the interview because I had been offered a job and the opportunity to start work the following day. Least to say, she was not happy. My perspective is that I think that, we as people, sometimes get caught up in the glitter of what we do and forget that there are other real human people affected by our choices and actions. I think that recruiters forget that they could be very well in the same position of having to job hunt just as much as the next individual as well as feel entitled to be praised without consent that every candidate that they come into contact with will not be desperate for job placement and instead searching for a more deserving position of employment.