Clearly all the good candidates are on Facebook

by Brett Iredale August 14, 2008

Recruiters - be very careful how you treat your rejects candidates lest they turn evil and flame you on Facebook...

A Facebook group called "I F#CKING HATE Recruitment Agencies, they don't help u, they r useless" is using Facebook to showcase their superior literacy and vocabulary skills by articulating concerns with recruitment practices online. 

A few classic quotes from members of the group:

"all i want to say is arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhrrrrrrr. worse than public transport, worse than politicians, worse than rude bailiffs who threaten small children and worse than traffic wardens...yes it's job agents. patronising, cloth eared, two faced liars. the (almost) lot of them"

"god damn vampires. i swear if they tell me "sorry, its all a bit quiet" or "just put your name on the availbles list" thats already got like 10,000 names on it once more i WILL kill one of them useless pricks."

Given that recruiters now commonly check out candidates on social networks during the recruitment process I would think these gifted individuals are not doing much to help their cause....

Entry filed under: Humour, Recruitment

2 CommentsAdd your own

1. Declan O August 16, 2008 at 5:19pm

The funniest is the web developer who "runs his own business" - which consists of him and him alone! He then recounts a story of creating a fake email address and a fake CV to send to an agency to prove a point to them - in the same breath making out recruiters are unprofessional, devious etc.

Classic.

2. exrecruiter August 20, 2008 at 12:50pm

Hilarious and very true. Especially read the list of "top most annoying things" recruiters do, true true true and that's just the good ones. The crap ones just interview people so they can reach their KPI's and spend less time cold calling. It's an 'orrible game and it's all gone sour. And not to far from the truth being called ex-Estate Agents because you really do meet lots of ex estate agents and car salesmen in recruitment....I supposse they needed another rock to climb under.

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