Research has shown having a photo on a LinkedIn profile can increase responsiveness to cold invites. It can also make life a little more interesting for recruiters; if they are recruiting supermodels.
In the lonely world of recruitment, particularly middle office recruitment, the most attractive photo one will come across will be of a four eyed four foot dump who resembles Mervyn King in a skirt and uses the same razor to shave both her armpits and above her upper lip. (Yes, this will be visible to the discerning eye).
Because most recruiters don’t have a life outside of “power hours” and LinkedIn, a vast number have started using Lovestruck.com to find attractive love.
Unfortunately Lovestruck is being forced to ban recruiters because those who date them complain of “strange behaviour”.
Basically, a typical date with a recruiter goes as follows.
1.Recruiter (male) meets date (female) in dodgy Bangladeshi curry house where waiters with poor English continuously use the word menage when they mean manage.
2.Recruiter orders cheap wine.
2A).Before it arrives he starts asking open general questions.
(In his mind he has a methodology of questions which will result in her accepting his “offer”).
3. Recruiter struggles to open bottle. Waiter arrives, points at recruiter and his date and says “you, you, menage; you need me”?
4. Date vomits at the thought of this miscommunication and prepares to leave.
5. Recruiter says: “but wait you haven’t let me probe you yet...” (See 2a- this is genuine recruiter lingo, not an immoral physical act).
6. Date, subjected to this further miscommunication, leaves.
7. Recruiter gets dunk on cheap wine and makes some cold calls.
8. You, an accountant, receive an inarticulate pitch at 9pm about a job that is of no interest.
9. Life goes on...
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