Had to share - a great story of a candidate experience...

My sorority sister has been job searching for the past year.  Its been a rocky road for her but I've been so proud to see how well she's handled it and how great she's come out of this experience.  We've all heard of peoples' stories about how tough it is to find new roles.  I remember when Hard Rock was hiring, there was a line around the block with folks just waiting to fill out an application at 7am.....  Yup, that's what I said, 7am..

Christina, my sorority sister interviewed for a job a couple of weeks ago and recieved an offer that she's accepted, which is fantastic and she's ecstatic about the opportunity.  Her experience stands out to me because of the interactions she had with various recruiters.  She'd been searching for an inside sales job and her resume listed this experience although her resume detailed her account management expertise so most of the calls she received were focused on outside sales as a result she was definitely getting calls but not for the kind of opportunity she was targeting.  She got a call from a recruiter who shared with her that she had some great experience and he wanted to consider her for an outside sales role.  Christina politely declined and he followed up by finding out the kind of opportunity she was targeting.  She shared with him that she was targeting an inside sales role and he stated she should revise her resume to reflect this, in doing so, she'd taken his advice and low and behold a couple of weeks later she's being contacted for inside sales opportunities.

Christina is an awesome girl and the company she's going to is sooo lucky to have her.  I'm glad she crossed paths with a recruiter who had the expertise and the savvy to share with her what she needed to do, in order to get the role she wanted.  Kudos to all my fellow recruiters who take an extra minute to share information and provide constructive feedback to folks who might not even be looking for it.  Know that each and every time you do this you're helping someone who would appreciate the assistance.  As a recruiter, I know what we do is sometimes thankless, but I know day in and day out all of you do fabulous stuff so I encourage you to keep doing what your doing because everyday it makes a difference to phenomenal folks like Chrisitina.... Take care and I wish you all well!
Ann Marie   =)