By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Here I answer a question from someone who wants to know why recruiters ask how the interview went after someone meets 1 of their clients.
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I’m Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter, the head coach for JobSearch.Community. I was a professional recruiter for more than 40 years. I think I can handle this question. The question is, why do recruiters ask how the interview went? So, from a language standpoint, we like to debrief the candidate on what their experience was.
Now, there’s a couple of reasons reasons for ranging from the innocuous that we really want to know how it went to, shall we say, more manipulative. These are the terms for it, but I just don’t have them coming to mind right now. So, here’s some of the other things.
Number one is, we want to know if you’ve learned anything about the job that might be useful to us for other candidates that we have interviewing. After all, sometimes, employers don’t communicate changes to a job description. They just contact a number of recruiters.
And although we may talk to them, they forget to tell the recruiter that they’ve changed their thinking about some aspects of the job. So, that’s one thing. So, how they explain the position to you might be one of the follow up questions.
So, the sequence might go, how did the interview go? And what sort of things did they ask you about? And they were trying to find . . . recruiters are trying to find out . . . I keep thinking of myself as a recruiter because I did it for so long. But they’re trying to find out the questions that you might have been asked. How did they explain the position to you? You know, sometimes the job description is missing some significant pieces to it that really will be tantalizing or indicate there’s something defective about the job.
Like, why would anyone want to do this? So, there’s a lot of reasons why recruiters will ask that question, including the basic banal one that says, I want to know if I have a chance of earning a fee with you. I also want to know whether I should call the client because if you say, oh, it’s terrible. Oh, it just beat me to a pulp.
Why would I put my head in the noose and put myself in the position of calling my client and going, hi, how’d it go to find out how it was bad and then get linked to your bad performance? The recruiter wouldn’t wind up finding it easy to get more interviews. So, the reasons why are primarily to gain information, but it’s also to find out whether you might do the deal, whether you might be the one that’s hired and thus a recruiter earns a commission. I’m Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter.
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