Starting first proper job tomorrow... any advice?
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Does indeed seem odd that you can go straight into recruitment without having had a job, but then isn't that the same as going into sell houses without having ever bought one?
Good luck, adapt to the culture, it might be fairly alright, or they might be the types that smash a bag of coke every night after a big deal.
Good luck, adapt to the culture, it might be fairly alright, or they might be the types that smash a bag of coke every night after a big deal.
VeeFour said:
No wonder the recruitment industry is so completely f
ked.
People who've never even had a job doing recruitment. The mind boggles.
It would be pretty difficult getting experience as a qualified medic with a PHD in multiple therapeutic areas. The reason i said headhunting rather than recruitment consultant is because the people i am placing are all on well over 100k a year. Do tell how i should get experience at that level.ked.People who've never even had a job doing recruitment. The mind boggles.
Simon Brooks said:
When you've been in the industry for 10+ years and actively recruited senior/director level then you will have earned the right to be a true headhunter until then be happy being a plain and simple recruitment agency consultant
Those are the people i will be recruiting, the medical desk is me and another chap. The people i am talking to are very high level medical officers from global pharma comapanies. I seem to have gone in at the deep end.mikearwas said:
It would be pretty difficult getting experience as a qualified medic with a PHD in multiple therapeutic areas. The reason i said headhunting rather than recruitment consultant is because the people i am placing are all on well over 100k a year. Do tell how i should get experience at that level.
It is not necessary. I know people who have done the same as you for construction (also high salaries as mostly contractors) and do just fine.mikearwas said:
Those are the people i will be recruiting, the medical desk is me and another chap. The people i am talking to are very high level medical officers from global pharma comapanies. I seem to have gone in at the deep end.
This is going to be amusing.I'm sure they've promised you the world, and you have a ridiculously large knotted tie at the ready.... But I can't see many £100k executives doing much business with a kid with no experience.
VeeFour said:
This is going to be amusing.
I'm sure they've promised you the world, and you have a ridiculously large knotted tie at the ready.... But I can't see many £100k executives doing much business with a kid with no experience.
It happens, if you have the right job and the right approach then it will happen!I'm sure they've promised you the world, and you have a ridiculously large knotted tie at the ready.... But I can't see many £100k executives doing much business with a kid with no experience.
The same way young estate agents sell million pound houses. It happens, and often.
VeeFour said:
This is going to be amusing.
I'm sure they've promised you the world, and you have a ridiculously large knotted tie at the ready.... But I can't see many £100k executives doing much business with a kid with no experience.
Has someoe had a bad day? You're being derogatory and aggressive in both threads i have going at the moment. If you don't have anything nice or useful to add i would rather avoid your negativity if thats alright. Ive just finished my first day at my first job and am obviously excited and daunted. Please dont come on here and put a downer on something you probably know little about.I'm sure they've promised you the world, and you have a ridiculously large knotted tie at the ready.... But I can't see many £100k executives doing much business with a kid with no experience.
mikearwas said:
Has someoe had a bad day? You're being derogatory and aggressive in both threads i have going at the moment. If you don't have anything nice or useful to add i would rather avoid your negativity if thats alright. Ive just finished my first day at my first job and am obviously excited and daunted. Please dont come on here and put a downer on something you probably know little about.
I know a lot about recruitment.Mostly that any kid who calls themselves a "headhunter" is full of s
t and is usually nothing more than a cold caller trying to sell jobs in the strength of details pulled from a database.mikearwas said:
Those are the people i will be recruiting, the medical desk is me and another chap. The people i am talking to are very high level medical officers from global pharma comapanies. I seem to have gone in at the deep end.
I suspect you wouldn't know a decent senior level CV if it hopped onto your desk wearing its best Sunday pants whilst singing "I am the very model of a modern senior level CV" to the tune of the major-general's song from Pirates of Penzance.That's an observation, not a criticism.
Still, have fun.
CommanderJameson said:
I suspect you wouldn't know a decent senior level CV if it hopped onto your desk wearing its best Sunday pants whilst singing "I am the very model of a modern senior level CV" to the tune of the major-general's song from Pirates of Penzance.
That's an observation, not a criticism.
Still, have fun.
Very true... At the moment. Tommorow my training focuses on cv analysis and what makes an excellent cv etc.That's an observation, not a criticism.
Still, have fun.
VeeFour said:
I know a lot about recruitment.
Mostly that any kid who calls themselves a "headhunter" is full of st and is usually nothing more than a cold caller trying to sell jobs in the strength of details pulled from a database.
Thats what a lot of people, probably deservedly think. The company i work for is nothing at all like this, it is a specialist company with multiple contacts in the industry. It is not a canvasser who fills positions by cold calling.Mostly that any kid who calls themselves a "headhunter" is full of s
t and is usually nothing more than a cold caller trying to sell jobs in the strength of details pulled from a database.
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