Leave your attitude at the door and offer expanded, thoughtful answers to interview questions. These are just two suggestions from several recruiters who shared their pet peeves at Devex’s Career Forum in Washington this year.
“When you’re trying to pull information out of someone, it makes your job a lot harder,” said Dwight Hahn, recruitment specialist with the QED Group.
And complaining about a lengthy resume uploading process won’t get you very far with Bucky Fairfax, vice president and senior HR business partner for RTI International, who spoke for all recruiters when he said that recruiters need a “streamlined, effective” system to fairly assess the many applicants they review.