As a full-time university student I am always looking for part time work. I continually search for a job that will fit in with my lecture schedule, fully utilise my skill set and give me never enough money to live on.
This means that I scour the online recruiting websites hoping against hope for not just a position to apply for but more importantly a response from a recruiter.
I submitted a resume to a consulting organisation, who according to its website ‘are able to provide you guidance and support throughout the recruitment process’ further claiming that assisting me ‘is their primary focus.’
I phoned the contact person to ask the simple but important questions e.g. how many hours per week and what suburb was the job in. The call went straight to message bank. I left my message. I emailed the same questions the following day.
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Regardless of the lack of response (the silence was deafening) I was hopeful.
Needless to say I never heard from them.
This was my initiation to what the human resources sector, commonly refer to as the Recruiting Black Hole.
The absurdity of spending hours compiling and refining a resume spelling out the reasons why I am the best candidate to then submit it into the online RBH, never to be seen or heard from again, is overwhelming and personally soul destroying.
Why do digital recruiters feel they can treat job seekers with such total disregard? Why would an employer align their business, and pay a fee, to a recruiter that treats possible employees with such disdain?