Recently, I wrote a blog to (a minority of) candidates titled stop being dicks when they are dealing with recruiters and potential employers. And an interesting thing happened…a recruiter used our anonymous LiveChat feature on our website to complain that I was damaging the reputation of the recruitment industry with my blog. When I was told…I laughed. So Dear Recruiter, whomever you are because you were too afraid of actually using your name, if you think, that advising candidates to treat recruiters and employers with respect is damaging to our industry, you have clearly forgotten the real issues which the recruitment industry faces. Crap Recruiters Yes, it’s a fact of life.

I might complain about candidates being dicks, but there are WAY more complaints about recruiters being dicks. And to be honest, rightly so. Here are the global top complaints by candidates and clients : Candidates:

Hiring Managers:

And as one recruiter to another – and this is one that neither the hiring manager nor the candidate particularly cares about, but which damages YOUR reputation in our industry; I loathe it when lazy recruiters send resumes to clients/hiring managers without the express permission of the candidate. You completely undermine every ethical, honest, hardworking recruiter in the industry, when you do this. So Dear Anonymous Recruiter, who thinks that me telling candidates to buck up their ideas is undermining the industry, I am not the problem with the recruitment industry. Crap recruiters are.