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Apr

9 Bad Habits of Recruiters that Damage their Reputation and Undermine Candidates

Sooner or later most of us will have to deal with recruiters, whether in-house HR departments or recruitment agencies. While we know our profile and character matter to help us get a job, it’s interesting that often recruiters don’t seem to understand the impact that their bad behaviour towards candidates can have on their own reputation.

While some of them are absolutely fantastic, there are those among them who ruin it for us as candidates and ruin their own reputation in turn - both as individual recruiters and companies. The Undercover Recruiter, the no. 1 blog on recruitment and career issues in the UK and Europe, generously agreed to publish my views on the topic.

Here’s my take on the worst bad habits of those culprits.

Hope you like it but - most importantly - hope you haven’t had one of the experiences listed in it!