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Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by lonelydora: 5:00am On Jul 31, 2018 |
Lazy recruiters 5 Likes |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by Gbengageorge: 5:14am On Jul 31, 2018 |
The one that I hate most is someone conducting interview for a position you don't know jack about. They keep asking irrelevant question instead of questions that deals with the challenges of the job. 10 Likes |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by phemmyfour: 5:30am On Jul 31, 2018 |
OfficialAPCNig:liar! Even a ridiculous email like "killmenow" @.... work with Chevron 12 Likes |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by phemmyfour: 5:34am On Jul 31, 2018 |
solelymade:his points are dumb. Like seriously, email and not entering interview room first or last. Believe this trash at your own peril 6 Likes |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by prettysassygirl(f): 5:59am On Jul 31, 2018 |
LaudableXX:I understand your point of view,but what stops the applicant to use his full names anyway,I think I agree with the op ,let people use their full names on email addresses for job applications,it shows a form of seriousness. 6 Likes |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by prettysassygirl(f): 6:02am On Jul 31, 2018 |
phemmyfour:Is that the mail he/she used for application?? |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by phemmyfour: 6:06am On Jul 31, 2018 |
prettysassygirl:yes, even "blacksnow" etc |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by EdoBoy90(m): 6:38am On Jul 31, 2018 |
In an economy where we don't have a lot of industries or companies, recruiters find flimsy excuse to disqualify to qualifiable candidates. Can I ask the recruiter a question? Remember in the good old days, people were employed without a mail address. CV and Cover letter should be the first prerequisite for employment it is because there are no jobs in Nigeria some recruiters treat graduates badly or unfairly. I don't blame some of you recruiters, I blame the economy and bad leaders we have in Nigeria. Nigeria we be great again when graduates will be begged to work. Nothing last forever. Nothing is permanent. 9 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by oluwayimika123: 8:12am On Jul 31, 2018 |
I see most of this recruiters as d most confusing being. They all set diff standards based on dier own personal judgment. The issue of using email add without nos shldnt be a prerequisite to choosing viable candidate. He has highlighted some things above that shows he's just one of this ova pompous HR saying a candidate didn't make d clearance list becos he/she didn't send an acknowledgement letter appropriately. I will like to remind OP that not everybody knows all this things and that doesn't mean they won't perform excellently well wen given a role. Recruiters shld stop dis act of acting like demi gods that must be worshipped and learn to b considerate 11 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by boladez(m): 8:17am On Jul 31, 2018 |
LaudableXX: You are limiting yourself by the email you use. No one will teach you professional emails in school but it is common sense. I will not bother with a chizzylove.Bleep or superboyxxx......it is a sign of immaturity, unseriousness and irresponsibility to use that mail for a job interview...rant all you can it will not change the business ethics of today's world. This is one of the shifts between the old generation and new generation to whom nothing matters and nothing counts 10 Likes |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by solelymade: 9:34am On Jul 31, 2018 |
oluwayimika123:I will tell you sir, that a good short concise acknowledgement mail as receipt of a mail for a job interview goes a long way to prepare the ground for a candidate. The candidate name resonant well with the HR recruiter and often time prepares the candidate for a mild toned interview session. Again for multistage interview, it is very good to send go acknowledgement mail. A 20-30 words mail kills no-one except a mentally lazy man. It says a lot about the personality of the candidate and his desire to join the organisation. Makes you stand out from the teeming crowd of applicants. Remember to the recruiter the applicant is either underemployed or unemployed, so what stops him/her from acknowledging a mail in a nice way. 5 Likes |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by abumeinben(m): 9:40am On Jul 31, 2018 |
OfficialAPCNig: name.initial.surname@gmail.com kwani? 2 Likes |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by solelymade: 9:49am On Jul 31, 2018 |
phemmyfour: His points are not dumb in any way whatsoever, those things he mentioned up post are the reasons a lot of applications go to the bin. The email one can be relaxed though in some circumstances to permit ignorance. You should know an organisation has it culture and values which must reflect in all it staffs. Have you ever wondered why some organisations in banking, insurance, education, health etc send away applicants with funny haircut and inappropriate dress sense,even though the appearance is not an objective measure of the ability of the applicant to perform on the job. He hasn't fully developed the part of entering the interview first or last but I guess I know where that's headed. 8 Likes |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by phemmyfour: 9:55am On Jul 31, 2018 |
solelymade:Only in Nigeria, when you drop capable people cos of email that's DUMB 2 Likes |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by solelymade: 10:03am On Jul 31, 2018 |
OfficialAPCNig:Oga APC, come finish your post keh.. 1 Like |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by ffo(m): 10:42am On Jul 31, 2018 |
IMO, Most of what the Op is saying applies mostly to freshers, i mean applicants with few or no year of experience. For an experienced candidate, the CV/Resume is what matters; skills, experience, projects, leadership roles, etc 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by 2019elections: 10:44am On Jul 31, 2018 |
OfficialAPCNig: This makes no sense to me. Does that mean we all should keep waiting outside the interview room cos we don't wanna b d first? Sometimes, you people just post to give the unemployed a reason just to be guilty. If that's the case, who goes in first? 10 Likes |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by jagagbosa(m): 10:47am On Jul 31, 2018 |
OfficialAPCNig:. story I was interviewed last in the first company I worked for and I got the job....who God has blessed no man can curse.. abeg park well 15 Likes |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by thewritingtodo(m): 10:48am On Jul 31, 2018 |
LaudableXX:And that's where you fail to understand the process. It is not whether a LAW permits the use of certain email addresses or not. Your email handle speaks volumes about you, just the way your hair or clothes do. Cyberspace has become part and parcel of our identities in this generation so it is easy to read a person's character from the kind of mail he/she uses. Me I'm with OP on this sha... recruiters have a whole lot of sieving to do, so if they use th strictest criteria, then so be it. 8 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by project4OO: 10:49am On Jul 31, 2018 |
In a working economy, many HR people would be out of jobs. 2 Likes |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by qanda: 10:52am On Jul 31, 2018 |
useful 1 Like |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by thewritingtodo(m): 10:53am On Jul 31, 2018 |
solelymade:Thousand likes bro! 4 Likes
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Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by Nobody: 10:55am On Jul 31, 2018 |
DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY IT'S COVER, the cliché stands Using your name as your address is good, nevertheless, If the email ad isn't too bad like the one LaudableXX suggested, y not? Don't wait for a full name ad like onikolapoomojogbodarasimiolowogbogboro@hotmail.com before you proceed. Some recruiters actually request to attach the cover letter so as to print a hard copy of it, and many don't like lengthy emails (myself, e.g). Do indicate your preference while advertising. I support putting a little introduction of your skills in job emails, though. Try as much as you can to go through a candidate's documents. Only discard CVs if THEY ARE NOT TAILORED OR SUIT THE ROLE not because they are unimpressive. Nigerian recruiters have this annoying habit of not doing so. Imagine an interviewer asking a candidate "do you have any experience/education" while he/she has a copy of the candidate's CV in hand. You have to make them feel you want to study them even as you expect them to study your company. Reasonable enquiries will focus on their potentials and what they have to offer not on obvious facts. So many wrong people are in the right positions already because of recruiter bias Another display of incompetence by recruiters is the act of sending undetailed IVs. How will an invitee acknowledge this? e.g, You're invited for an interview on Mt. Everest Tuesday by 11:00am bla bla bla... no position indicated, what if you're a scammer? THE COWARDLY ACT OF NOT NOTIFYING FAILED CANDIDATES OR saying "WE'LL GET BACK TO YOU" when you plan not to. SO GROSS & DUMB– attitude of lazy recruiters. Be nice to all candidates. That one you rejected yesterday could hire you tomorrow. OfficialAPCNig: 10 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by udeze73(m): 10:55am On Jul 31, 2018 |
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Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by Nobody: 10:55am On Jul 31, 2018 |
Come and continue biko.. . I'm actually not guilty of the listed points so far apart from the figure 1 in front of my official email. 2 Likes |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by qanda: 10:57am On Jul 31, 2018 |
LaudableXX:While it may sound harsh that most hiring managers critique email addresses, it does happen because they do create a first impression. Below are 7 deadly email sins to make sure to stay away from so you don’t end up in the “unprofessional” pile. 1. Wrong Name John_smith@.....(dot)com (when your real name is David Jones) Don’t confuse the reader from the start! Is your name John Smith or David Jones? There is no reason to have the hiring manager ask this type of question at the start of your resume.’ 2. Fantasy Name invisibleman@.....(dot)com Are you applying for a job or are you auditioning for a video game? 3. Creepy Name collegestrangler@.....(dot)com Given the fact that over 80% of companies now run background checks on potential employees, there is no reason to give an employer the impression that you may have a criminal record. 4. Sportsperson: tigerwoods50@.....(dot)com This might have been ok when you were in high school, but not in the workplace. 5. The Numbers: 998877665544@.....(dot)com Confusing! You are just asking for someone to send an email to the wrong place. 6. The Crude Name: hairychest@.....(dot)com Not a good first impression. Also, many of these email address contain words that will usually get filtered into the spam folder. 7. Confess love email address: bonjovilover@.....(dot)com Again, you are applying for a job, not a role as a groupie. So… what should you do? Stick to the basics. The best email address will contain your full or partial name, followed by either characters or numbers. Think about how most workplace email addresses are set up – most of them contain a combination of an employee’s first and last name. Try to mimic this – a professional email address represents a professional job Candidate. Don’t give your reader the wrong impression! Article Credit: Extract from the Ultimate Student and Graduate Handbook. Access the Book for free on Q and A App. Download Q and A App from Google Playstore. Important knowledge you would gain from the book •How to Break into a Career •How to avoid Job Search Burnout •What to do if you don’t Succeed at First •Why Nobody Calls you back for a Job Interview Request •How to replace Objective Statement with a Qualification Profile on Your CV 7 Likes |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by thewritingtodo(m): 10:59am On Jul 31, 2018 |
boladez:Sure man 1 Like |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by Nobody: 11:01am On Jul 31, 2018 |
my email is madeup of my name and 2face. yet kpmg,delliote, pwc, access, oceanic, honeywell etc invited me for test and interview that year 3 Likes |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by mcugo(m): 11:02am On Jul 31, 2018 |
LaudableXX:True! |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by thunderbabs: 11:04am On Jul 31, 2018 |
So much for "Equal Employment Oppotunity" ![]() 1 Like |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by Ayodele92: 11:07am On Jul 31, 2018 |
merit455:Use your brain |
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