The Recruiting Rollercoaster, All Aboard!
Have you ever had that day when in the morning you get a call that your client wants to give a promising candidate an offer, two hour later the candidate accepts and you are in bliss spending your commission? After lunch you get a phone call from the same candidate reneging the offer because he got a counter offer and you are in the depths of despair?
Recruiting is not for the faint of heart. Today, I met a great Solutions Architect, walked him into the client, everything went great. He is interviewing as we speak so I am impatiently awaiting the results. He has to talk to 8 people so I’m hoping it’s more of meet and greet than anything else. Pre-closing candidates like this is the hardest thing since they are smart and you never know all their cards.
Meanwhile I got a call from another client saying that one of our candidates that started on Monday apparently misled them on the background check. So we will potentially lose that placement if the person can’t produce documentation proving that the information was correct. It’s a bit disappointing, but I just keep going since there is nothing at all I can do at this point then hope that the documentation is there.
When I first started, I would literally run around the office celebrating every interview and going crazy at every offer, I would be equally dejected at every bad interview and every term. As I placed more people, I became less emotional and more pragmatic in my reactions.
In the recruiting model I work in, the recruiter controls a very small portion of the process so after a while I stopped reacting to minute news. The roller coaster became a more even high way. And while I still react to some very good and unexpected news with enthusiasm, I don’t let other things I do not control crush me.
