One of the pains of working in rec-to-rec is dealing with the often two-dimensional expectations of clients. Recruitment, whilst preaching anything but to its customers, can often be an incredibly narrow-minded industry when it comes to filling it's own vacancies.
There is often an expectation from clients that any new recruit must want to stay forever, and that anything on their CV that remotely suggests they have any other professional interests must mean they aren't 'committed' to the recruitment industry. But how many people really are committed to it, and how many just fell into it and are actually, albeit in a low-level way, really just looking for an exit?
I've blogged about this before, but most hirers in recruitment know full well that keeping a good person more than a couple of years is a decent result, and growing that person into a position where they can positively influence others is an even better one.
So bearing in mind that very few people stay that long anyway, even the ones who appear to do and say all the right things, why the obsession with them doing it and saying it in the first place? Looking back over the placement history of Wave Recruitment, many people still in post and doing well are actually the apparently 'riskier' hires, not with a cookie-cutter CVs, and not necessarily 'big billers' (and how many genuine stand-alone big billers are really out there?)
So if we can agree that a wide range of skills are the key to success in recruitment, then just because someone's CV doesn't read like a 'standard' recruitment CV, try looking again. They might fit your organisation better than 'same old same old.'
After all, we try to persuade our clients that CVs aren't important, and that they are paying us for a 'consultative' service.
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