Recruitment Consultant : A recruitment consultant is responsible for helping employer clients to recruit staff for job openings.
IT Recruitment Agency: On behalf of a major and well-respected blue-chip clients, actively seeking to recruit a number of IT Professionals within various functions..
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This post was written by admin on June 22, 2009
Will anyone be able to catch the placement industry by the Jugular? When, so far, no one has been able to find it? Wow!
I must admit that a few other things took me by surprise while I was compiling the next edition of Jobnet’s Directory Of Recruitment Firms.
Firstly, the old cliche ‘Survival of the Fittest’ is not applicable here and secondly, never was any industry so underestimated in its power to survive.
What keeps rankling is the thought that why does everyone keep talking about the placement industry needing a common platform? Placement agencies themselves admit to a lack of organised systems and controls in their trade. Is it a weakness? Or maybe the strength of the placement industry today lies in their lack of organisation?
Perhaps all this arises because one is uncomfortable if one cannot identify the jugular, or even catch a whiff of a pulse.
I guess it gets uncomfortable if one has no ghost of an idea on how to encash on a bunch of people who collectively represent such a large mass. The government wants to enforce laws and taxes. Most job websites have become placement firms, and now expect their competitors to collaborate or pay up. The newspapers and magazines promise visibility without commitment in accuracy in catering to specific needs. So why does it come as a surprise to everyone if, under the circumstances, no one in the placement industry can be convinced to part with their money?
The more I see of it, I’m impressed. Placement consultants march to their own drummers. The extreme competitiveness with each other has produced a new breed of entrepreneurs like no other. Perhaps it’s time to look at the placement industry at its face value rather than the colour of its collar.
It’s like that old game of trying to pin the tail on the donkey blindfold. It’s easy to guess who gets to have the last laugh.
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This post was written by admin on June 13, 2009
