7 CONFESSIONS FROM RECRUITERS FOR YEAR 2015

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• 7 CONFESSIONS FROM RECRUITERS FOR YEAR 2015

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• 2015 has seen a rise in number
  of hirings across India, and specially among the
  start-ups. As we are nearing the end of this
  year, we reached out to recruiters of various
  companies (both Corporate Organisations as well
  as Recruitment Agencies) and asked them to make a
  confession about their work in this industry.
  Here is a collection of most commonly told
  statements.
• Less time to read Resumes Recruiters have
  received plenty of applications, but they were
  able to give only 5-7 seconds of time on each
  resume. Nearly 83 of recruiters revealed that
  cover letters went unnoticed.
• Candidate Personal Details Recruiters have
  given emphasis on the email ids of the candidates
  as well. If it was not professional, 75
  recruiters have rejected candidates for the job.

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• 3. Do not jump on References Almost every
  company need references by the candidates from
  their previous organization. Going against the
  ethics of recruitment, recruiters have called the
  bosses of the referred company even when they
  have not shortlisted the candidates.
• 4. Keep Social Media Clean Nearly 70 of the
  recruiters have agreed to visit candidates social
  media profiles on various networking sites. In
  the year 2015, nearly 90 of the companies used
  social media for recruiting and this number is
  expected to rise in the near future.
• 5. Freshers are going directly to Recruitment
  Agencies During 2015, fresh graduates who were
  looking to make a career in Recruitment HR,
  have preferred applying into recruitment
  companies over corporate organisations. The
  reasons being, recruiting agencies offered decent
  starting salary, big bonuses and fast
  progressions.

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• 6. Contract roles on the promise of Full-time
  job Year 2015 has seen reluctance from companies
  to offer full time salaried position to
  employees. They have asked recruitment agencies
  to find candidates who were willing to work on
  hourly or daily rate.
• 7. Candidates have given the leads unknowingly
  Recruitment agencies are always on the lookout of
  more and more clients. For this, recruiters were
  trained to ask the candidates Have you attended
  any interview before? This question didnt cause
  any harm to candidates.

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