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It's Stu Wetstein with Recruiter Confidential and welcome back to bonus video number
six of The Seven Strategies for Getting the Offer in 2013. We're talking about working with recruiters, and this is sort of obviously one of my favorite topics having been a recruiter for basically the last 20 years or maybe my whole life, but specifically the last 20 years as a professional. So let's talk about a couple of general rules for working with recruiters.
Rule number one, transparency. How can I tell the truth? If I tell the truth then I am not going to know, nope, that stuff doesn't work anymore. Let me tell you how it works with recruiters now. Between LinkedIn and the way the world's network is connected, anything that you might be trying to hide, anything that you're trying to spin anybody, if you've got 10 recruiters on standby because you're trying to get one job. For the most part you've got to shoot everybody straight because everybody knows everybody, and it always comes back, so transparency honestly, our parents were right, the honest is the
best policy is kind of the rule number one with recruiters.
Okay, let's get on with it, rule number two. The difference of the different types of recruiters, and I just want to cover this stuff quickly because there's a lot of different types of recruiters that you might encounter, but two basics types. Internal recruiters, somebody who works at the company that you want to go work at. It's easy to identify them, and they're typically going to have a very specific agenda. They may have a lot of jobs that they're recruiting for. They're usually going to have very strong intel on who
the hiring manager is, what they're looking for, what they're maybe not looking for, so obviously ask, you know, as many questions as you can get away with, and their goal is to get the job filled, and you're also more than likely going to have to follow the rules and play, you know, by their game, and I mean I've worked with candidates who have worked with some of the big, giant companies, you know, the Amazon's of the world and what I can tell you about working with them is they are going to have a very specific, you know, set of rules you're going to have to follow if you want to be a candidate and if not, the
reality is there's somebody next on the list.
The second type of recruiter that most commonly you're going to run into is a third party recruiter. Somebody like myself who is working on behalf of the company trying to introduce them to the right candidate, preferably you, and the way you're going to work with those recruiters also is being transparent, but you might be able to get a little bit more Intel from a third party recruiter because they're not directly working for the company and they might be able to give you a little bit more off the record intel on likes, dislikes, and how to best prepare for the job. www.recruiterconfidential.com
