Recruiters (and others) Smell the Blood of Job Seekers

Recruiters (and others) Smell the Blood of Job Seekers I had a fascinating conversation with a an HR friend of mine back in 2006, the year I lost my job and started JibberJobber. In this conversation he said HR can smell blood from a mile away. It was as if the world stopped turning because he called me out, and I had a huge epiphany. You can read the original post here: I Smell Blood! A year later I wrote Are You Bleeding? because by that time I had talked to a ton of job seekers and a common theme was that they were all proactively bleeding. The things they were saying, the way they were saying them, was bloody. It should an immense amount of hurt and grief. Im not one to take that away from you, for sure. I went through my own period(s) where I had hurt and grief. But I had to learn that spewing this hurt and grief was keeping me out of networking opportunities, and keeping my friends and contacts from referring me into the right people. You dont recommend someone who has fresh wounds that are impacting their thinking into an important networking opportunity. It was like these people were bleeding, and not realizing they were stalling their job search. It was a hard realization for me, but a super important one. I hoe these two posts help you. Recruiters (and others) Smell the Blood of Job Seekers I had a fascinating conversation with a an HR friend of mine back in 2006, the year I lost my job and started JibberJobber. In this conversation he said HR can smell blood from a mile away. It was as if the world stopped turning because he called me out, and I had a huge epiphany. You can read the original post here: I Smell Blood! A year later I wrote Are You Bleeding? because by that time I had talked to a ton of job seekers and a common theme was that they were all proactively bleeding. The things they were saying, the way they were saying them, was bloody. It should an immense amount of hurt and grief. Im not one to take that away from you, for sure. I went through my own period(s) where I had hurt and grief. But I had to learn that spewing this hurt and grief was keeping me out of networking opportunities, and keeping my friends and contacts from referring me into the right people. You dont recommend someone who has fresh wounds that are impacting their thinking into an important networking opportunity. It was like these people were bleeding, and not realizing they were stalling their job search. It was a hard realization for me, but a super important one. I hoe these two posts help you.