This Irish recruitment agency are SHAMING people returning to the workforce after having a career gap or break that won’t accept lower salaries which is disgusting and unprofessional – what are your thoughts?

This Irish recruitment agency are SHAMING people returning to the workforce after having a career gap or break that won’t accept lower salaries which is disgusting and unprofessional – what are your thoughts? from ireland

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  1. In my experience recruiters are generally people who couldn’t hack it in another industry with a massively over inflated opinion of themselves.

  5. I think the hardest part of looking yourself in the mirror and realizing that you’re totally content being a worthless, bottom-feeding piece of filth who has absolutely no regard for other human beings must be deciding whether to become a recruiter or an estate agent.

  7. Wow what an absolute shower, whats the reaction been on tiktok?

    As a contractor I absolutely detest recruiters, never had a good one. the sheer amount of ghosting is maddening.

  8. Genuinely feels like all recruiters are the same.

    All look the same. There’s a 99.4% chance they watch love island.

    The same boring introduction call trying to sell you a “great opportunity” and you’ll be on 100k in 18 months if you work hard. Oh yeah, because I haven’t been working hard until now Jesus I never thought of that.

    The same clique atmosphere about them where you know well they are going to low-ball the fuck out of you on salary as much as possible.

    Want you to know the full history of the company in question on an introduction call, know their values and how you align. Aka corporate shit talk.

    Out of my course the people you’d expect to go into recruitment… all went into recruitment.

    Only people on par in corporate are HR themselves, they also love fucking you dry in the name of “business needs” at every opportunity possible.

  14. One Agency Recruitment according to the watermark.. is that a real thing?

    I’m a bit baffled to be honest. Who does this appeal to? An agency coming across like a pack of cunts doesn’t appeal to potential employees/candidates, surely? And I would assume anyone that is using them to fill roles, probably would have the sense to realise that gaps in CVs are where people actually did ‘life things’ and therefore you’re generally likely to get well-rounded, mature candidates who have life experience?

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    I’m genuinely not sure who this is supposed to appeal to. They look like total amateurs.

  15. It’s a recruitment agency, they’re sales people who bullshit about jobs they haven’t secured the contract for, for a living. You’re hardly surprised they’d put out something like that

  18. I have read your profile and I am really impressed with your experience and believe you would be a great fit for this role.
    My salary expectations are…
    The role has been filled let’s keep in touch

  19. What I particularly hate about recruiters is when they try to pressure you to interview for jobs they know you don’t want and would be bad for your career.

  20. Recruitment. Estate agent. Residential mortgage broker.

    The very definition of notions. All jobs that seem like they require skill. But really just require a sociopath banter merchant.

    When you stop and look at those jobs and realise they’re not working in your best interests, they’re much easier to understand and deal with.

    Obviously you get some good ones. But the vast majority are bullshit artists.

  22. You need to accept a lower wage because we can’t do the one fucking thing you’d even consider using us for – getting you the best package available.

    Best way to work with recruiters is, schmooze them enough to find out who the hiring company is, then go behind their backs and cut a deal to get their % in your wage packet.

  24. The irony is that those girls look no older than 22, and will likely at some point in their lives take a career break and be in the exact same position as the people they’re mocking.

  25. I am a contractor and regularly deal with recruiters. It seems to be the only business out there where you will regularly see them make fun of their clients online. I often see posts on LinkedIn with recruiters shaming clients and other recruiters backing them up in the comments.

    They also tend to spend a lot of time trying to make a point that “recruitment isn’t easy. It’s a pointless industry and I can’t stand having to deal with recruiters. I have learned that it’s best to have a really strict list of what you want to know before getting on a call with one. If they won’t provide salary range, job spec, company, location then jog on.

  26. I’m an internal recruiter. Never have I ever used such a fitting meme for a thread.

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  28. Terribly bemused by how their website claims that their Instagram is the “most followed recruitment agency”, yet their engagement rate is abysmal (less than 1%). You’d think that with some of the people working there possessing marketing degrees that they would be keenly aware of how buying fake followers is a major social media faux pas and yet here they are.

  29. I hate recruiters with a passion.

    In 20 years working in IT I have wasted countless hours dealing with them, and I have never been placed into a single job by any of them. Dealing with an employer directly has proven itself to be the winning strategy for me.

    I hate the way they describe every job as an “amazing opportunity.”

    I hate the way they describe relatively low salaries as competitive.

    I hate all the weird secrecy they engage in by refusing to give me key details about the job until I have given them all my details.

    I hate the fact that even when you say no you aren’t interested, they still hassle you.

    I hate the fact that they don’t bother to properly read your LinkedIn profile or CV before contacting you about a job they have.

    I hate that they feel they have the right to modify your CV with their crappy logo or even go as far as editing your work history.

    I hate the way they think that it’s perfectly acceptable to phone you out of the blue and then expect you to to take the time to listen to their pitch.

    I hate the fact that I have had recruiters actually get angry at me because I refused to to do their bidding.

    I hate the fact that on three separate occasions I had recruiters actually arrange an interview for me, even though I had told them I wasn’t interested in the job.

    I hate the fact that I’ve dealt with recruiters who thought it was perfectly acceptable to phone me via my current employers switchboard because I wasn’t answering my mobile.

    I hate the way they ignore the GDPR by inserting you into their database without informing you.

    But most of all I hate there arrogance in thinking that they can can treat me like a product to the flogged off to an employer. There are recruitment agencies with the term “human capital” in their name, I find it odd that few people raise an eyebrow to that.

    So yeah, basically I hate recruiters.

  30. “Formed in 2019 by Kevin Thomas & Leonard Morrissey, after extensive market research within the recruitment industry and the impact social media has had on each generation. Our purpose was to become rule breakers within the industry by modernizing the recruitment process by leveraging social media & digital marketing, along with aggressive rates within the sector.”

    Quote form their website. Do all business graduates talk like this? They could do with doing a bit more market research on social media. Like maybe try to learn how not to kill your business with one 10sec tiktok video.

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