My core skill area is comparitively niche and I spent months trying to hire developer positions for it by using agencies such as Hudson, Huxley, MA Associates, Arrows Group etc. plus had many other unendorsed agencies send me prospective CVs. During that entire time, I had next to no CVs which covered my skill area so had to widen the net.
On Saturday, I spotted an ad by Hays Corporate Accounts covering exactly the skill area which I'm involved in, and for which I'd be a perfect match. I rang this morning and was told that the recruiter was on holiday but had in any case covered off all of her roles before leaving. I said that the role had only been advertised on Friday afternoon. The receptionist said that she'd check. Came back and said the maximum number of CVs had been submitted. I said that I had recently been a hiring manager and had tried to recruit a candidate with just 1 of the skills mentioned for months with limited success and that I was a perfect match. She said that nevertheless they'd submitted CVs already and that they had a lot of CVs on their database. I said that if they had CVs on their database why did they need to advertise the role. She cut me off.
On Saturday, I spotted an ad by Hays Corporate Accounts covering exactly the skill area which I'm involved in, and for which I'd be a perfect match. I rang this morning and was told that the recruiter was on holiday but had in any case covered off all of her roles before leaving. I said that the role had only been advertised on Friday afternoon. The receptionist said that she'd check. Came back and said the maximum number of CVs had been submitted. I said that I had recently been a hiring manager and had tried to recruit a candidate with just 1 of the skills mentioned for months with limited success and that I was a perfect match. She said that nevertheless they'd submitted CVs already and that they had a lot of CVs on their database. I said that if they had CVs on their database why did they need to advertise the role. She cut me off.
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