Why Do Recruiters Ask About Things They Can Find Out in Your Resume?
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
There are 2 reasons why recruiters ask questions about things that they can already find out in your resume. Here, I lay them out simply for you.
.The “How Would You Do This” Interview . . . PLUS
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I’m Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter. I’m the head coach for JobSearch.Community, a site with curated information that I’ve developed and others have as well that will help you find work more quickly. The question I received was, why do recruiters ask about things they can already find out in my resume? Now, this may be a shock to you.
If it is, I apologize if I’m the one who is shocking you, but I have to always answer with no BS and that is there are a couple of different reasons. Number one is people lie. They don’t tell the truth.
So, when you put them on the spot during an interview, sometimes they tell you different things that are in the resume. That’s one. Now, assuming that you’re a truth teller and your reaction was to go, oh, stupid, you know, who would lie? Well, there’s another thing that we’re trying to do.
And I speak in the present tense, even though I stopped doing recruiting a while back. But, you know, I did it for more than 40 years. So, using my thought process, I want to see, I want to hear how you tell the story of what you did and how you went about doing it, so that I get a sense of how you interview.
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You see, for me, if I stumble into someone who’s trying to con me, that’s a bonus point. I’m assuming that everyone’s telling me the truth in the resume. And in telling me the truth, I’m moving on to the next thing, which is, if I’m going to invest my time and energy in representing someone, how are they going to perform on the interview? Do I have a chance of earning a fee? If not, delete because it’s a waste of my time, no matter how good you are.
My client will wind up hiring you. That makes sense. You see, we don’t just do things to find you a job because you’re paying nothing.
What we do, what recruiters do, is fill a position with a client and that client pays us. So, you are the person who will allow us to earn the fee or not. So, in telling us what you’ve done and how you went about doing it, you’re helping us to discern between different people because we can’t submit everyone.
We’re not paid to flip resumes like it’s a burger at a fast food restaurant. What we’re paid to do, what recruiters are paid to do, is to deliver someone who the client has determined that they need because they have a particular background and a particular personality type who will do the job and has the required skills that they have specified. So, if you can’t interview well, if you can’t interview well with the recruiter, they’re going to hit the delete key because there’s no chance of earning a fee.
So, take it seriously. Don’t just simply say, why are they wasting my time? Because they’re not. You’re wasting their time if you don’t deliver well, if you don’t act professionally enough on the interview and show that you have the required skills and can present your story well.
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