Recruiters, You're Better Off Just Telling The Truth

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So, I just received a phone call from my fiance that touched upon some of the things we speak in reference to on this board. The situation reflects a perfect example as to why telling the truth is just flat-out better than lying (although this might not be the board to post this because you could argue that recruiters in this group already care enough to be doing the right thing in the first place!)
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6 X2 F6 E2 H9 YMy fiance' (Jennifer) is a sales manager for a large high-end wallcovering firm (eco-friendly focus) located in NYC. She runs the Southeast Region as the Sales Manager and has a dedicated representative at the ADAC showroom in Atlanta. Today, that rep received a call from a recruiter claiming to "have a product question and that Jennifer should know why she's calling". The rep responded that answering product questions was actually her job, so the recruiter answered, "Well, Jennifer and I know each other, so I don't want to get too much into this sensitive information about the product". The rep looked at the caller id and noticed "North Coast ExecuSearch", so she asked if that's where the recruiter was calling from, so the recruiter responded that she had no idea what the rep was calling about . . . and then abruptly hung up. I don't want to put the recruiter's name here, but I wrote it down and went to the company's website and there it was: a "client testimonial" claiming how great this recruiter was.
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3 ~/ `/ h5 Q; m+ w4 AIs it just me, or is this behavior appalling? I have never (yes, never) made a call of this nature and lied about who I was or what I was calling in reference to. Most recruiters say to me, "C'mon, you can be honest with us", to which I reply, "Honestly, I suck at lying, so why bother?"
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: Y2 o5 v. ^9 e2 U8 H! L; j3 e. b. @3 OAnyway, to get back on point, you can be rest assured that this recruiter will not be getting a callback from my fiance. Since she knows the game (because we talk about these things from time to time), she now knows if something looks like a rat, smells like a rat, and walks/talks like a rat, it's definitely a rat!
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This is a notable profession that allows us to change our candidates' and clients' lives for the better in so many ways . . . and at its core, this is as much a consultative industry as any other . . . so why do some approach it with a volume-based multilevel marketing approach? Why do some treat this like they're selling some kind of 'prepaid legal services'?!? I worry that if things were to continue on this way, we'd start seeing 'staffing bumper stickers' on the side of hoopty cars driving down the road! Perhaps we need some type of reporting mechanism that allows potential candidates and clients to look up complaints and reports of staffing firms before deciding or not deciding to move forward.
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$ _; B6 r2 w. c! H; m! D6 Z. vAnyway, I digress. Thanks for my short-lived rant and I'm sure many of you share the same sentiments.