Competition for New Employees
What’s an Employer to Do?
After decades working as a professional recruiter, it’s become abundantly clear that my clients are all in the same boat. Struggling to stay ahead of the competition in terms of salary, benefits, relocation assistance, work visa sponsorship, hybrid or remote schedules and anything and everything that can be used to attract talent.
Every week there are new recruiters. Companies I’ve never heard of are posting jobs that may or may not be “real.” Over the years I’ve learned to read between the lines and when I see a recruiter’s job posting, I can quickly figure the actual employer. Lately, about one in ten of what I see posted can be traced back to a real company with a real job opening.
Just recently I saw the exact same job title and description posted by eight different companies, seven of which were new recruiting firms. The eighth one was the actual hiring company. Most companies do not engage that many recruiters, so I suspect they just posted the job but did not have permission or even a request to work on filling the job opening.
Why are they doing this?
Since they are new recruiting companies, they are likely just gathering resumes for their database in case there’s a need at some point in the future. Or they may be selling the resumes to some of the sites that use them to pad their database to attract companies to use their services. There’s too much clutter out there right now.
I’m a recruiter who believes in ethics. I know that sounds impossible as there are so many recruiters employing sneaky tactics. I’ve heard countless stories of recruiters, promising higher salary, better benefits, more time off, hybrid, remote or whatever the potential employee wants, in exchange for changing jobs.
Employees are being bombarded by recruiters and AI systems alike, lurking on every social media platform.
AI Recruiting
Since AI systems never sleep, they tirelessly hunt down potential candidates. Again, I’ve heard horror stories from job candidates who are being pursued by phone, email, text, IM and on all the social media sites. You cannot hide from the AI recruiting systems. It’s no wonder employees are feeling the pressure to change jobs.