I was treated very badly by recruiters the majority of the time back when I still got jobs via recruiters. I'm a VP now, so I decided to take that crushing experience and figure out how to empower and support recruiters as a partner. Connecting with these folks in my org, who have so many constraints & so much load in their day, and providing them with defensible science-backed rationales for changes is really cool
Not everyone has my background (of actually consulting in hiring and expertise in how we evaluate skills), but I think every leader can sit down with recruiters and ask them "what do YOU see our process struggle with. What keeps you up at night with candidates. Where do you think our process could be more humane." The humans around us at work may be perpetuating a poor process because they truly feel they have no other choice and they'll be penalized otherwise.
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