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Success for Stacey April 2008
Stacey Ward has successfully passed the REC exam in Recruitment practice and is looking forward to her new role as a Assistant Recruitment Consultant.
Wilkinson Hindle are committed to Best Practice and REC membership, aiming to provide the opportunity for staff to train and study for the body qualifications and encouraging them to fulfil their potential.
Recent Article published in The Recruiter
Fiona McDonald manager of Wilkinson Hindle comments on the state of the Rec 2 Rec business and receives strong support for her comments...
A Day in the Life of a Rec2Rec Consultant!
"I often ask myself, what will I be when I grow up?! Rec2Rec has historically had a pretty poor name. Maybe this is justified by the practises of some. However, in the main, the Industry is full of trustworthy, hard working and credible recruiters, who believe passionately in the Industry and do their utmost to source quality recruiters for their clients.
As an active member of the R2R division of the REC, some times it is of little comfort to know that we all go through similar frustrations with candidates who clearly should know better – are there really that many “flaky” recruitment consultants across the UK?
I could write a book on excuses why candidates let you down – couldn’t we all?! However, when I moved in to R2R nearly four years ago, I was looking forward to dealing with professional candidates who worked in the same industry as me and would therefore have themselves been faced with let downs, no-shows, lack of communication, blatant lies etc – and would obviously not behave in that way too. How wrong I was – and perhaps naïve?
It amazes me that recruiters who come to us to find them a new role can act with such lack of integrity and appear to hold no value on the importance of communication. Call me a traditionalist, but I am a proponent of physically “speaking” to someone when you have an issue. Even though I am always available outside office hours on a mobile, some candidates think it’s acceptable to speak via text only! How can you resolve issues and negotiate effectively for them this way? Email and text are frequently used as a means to “let you down”. Where is the sheer professionalism and credibility to make a telephone call and explain situations in that good old-fashioned method?! The sheer plethora of lame excuses offered by experienced recruiters will never cease to amaze me – and I won’t even start on the unconvincing and unacceptable reasons recruiters provide as to why they can’t attend an interview, let alone contact you.
My plea to all you recruiters out there looking for a new role and working with a credible Rec2Rec company is to ask yourself: “Is this an acceptable way for my candidates to deal with me?” And to all clients who work with Rec2Recs and think we have an easy ride, please think again! We work hard to eradicate such bad practises from our candidates and those who continue to perpetrate our efforts. Please don’t hold us personally responsible for the ineptitude of such unscrupulous individuals."
Fiona McDonald
Manager
Wilkinson Hindle
fmcdonald@wilkinsonhindle.co.uk
Strong support in response!
Dear Fiona
I have just read your letter in the 6th February issue of Recruiter. It touched such a nerve that I simply had to drop you a note!
I agree with absolutely everything you said. I have been in recruitment for 14 years and, like you, when I first branched into R2R a number of years ago I naively believed that the candidates would be more reliable, more respectful, more professional. Oh dear, what a huge misconception that was...
...Reading your article, it was so refreshing to see someone else who still believes in what seem to be classed as old-fashioned values. In these days of political correctness when we all have to watch our p’s and q’s in almost every respect, it never ceases to amaze me that those fundamental qualities of honesty, integrity, loyalty and respect seem to have disintegrated in the majority of people. Very sad. In spite of that, I won’t ever let my own standards drop – and I’m sure you’re the same at Wilkinson Hindle.
Anyway, just wanted to thank you for such a great letter. It gives the rest of us hope that there are still at least SOME decent recruiters out there!
Kind regards
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