"CHANGING DIRECTIONS"
For the past several weeks, I have been meeting excellent candidates/jobseekers with a stable work history and terrific skills. Unfortunately, they have all wanted to pursue a career distinctly different from the one they built their professional resume with! Don't get me wrong; I am all for the pursuit of something that is a PASSION or a CALLING...but that's not what my clients are paying for. When an employer contracts with a recruitment firm; they are expecting that they will be introduced to a professional that VERY CLOSELY matches the job specifications they have provided. Therefore; the odds of me securing a candidate that has been an Executive Assistant for the past five years a position as a Marketing Coordinator are slim! It does not matter that you are "willing to take a pay cut" or that you are "willing to start at the bottom"! I as a recruiter am being paid to present EXPERTISE...not POTENTIAL. This should not discourage all of you from going