At this point in my career, I have heard and used just about every pitch when trying to recruit people or clients. What are some of the most memorable calls you have received from a recruiter? What is the best (or funniest, most effective) pitch you received from a recruiting calling you?
Hal Moore
Executive Recruiter/Asst. Market Lead – Bolton Consulting at The Bolton Group [Toplinked 8000+]
The best “pitch” is any recruiter that actually takes the time to look at my resume and tell me specifically why they thought that I’d be a good fit for the position. The vast majority of recuriters these days just swing blind and hope to hit something. On an average week, I get half a dozen recruiters reaching out to me with oppportunities. Maybe once a month I get one that’s actually a decent match.
The funniest call that I had was a recruiter that called me up and in a very strong chinese accent opened with a “You want job? I have super good job for you. You send resume and I give to manager. Very much pay with super good match.” I thought that it was a telemarketing pitch or someone playing a joke on me. But he was just so high-energy that I had to play along and see what he had to say. The real kicker was that after about 10-15 minutes of him saying “You send resume…send resume now…I send to manager”, it turned out that the job he was trying to fit me to was a job posting that I had had just put out to bid. (guess he didn’t notice the similarity in names between the hiring manager and the name on the resume 🙂
I really enjoyed and related to this post. It’s easy to get so busy with work and raising a family that you suddenly wake up and say, “Who am I?” Once we start to answer that question, we often find that we’re no longer who we started out as. But perhaps th;8t#&217as true for everyone.