Your Role Sucks and Thats Why Recruiters Cant Fill it

Your Role Sucks and Thats Why Recruiters Cant Fill it The  work of agency recruiters never stops. They  are the ultimate plate spinners who could always be doing more. While they constantly strive to bring more work in, nurturing relationships with candidates and clients, some roles are honestly more pain to work on than theyre really worth. Having an  impossible-to-fill role on their  books is a  real drainer. It doesnt matter how great the client is or how chunky that salary is; if recruiters cant place someone happily in the role, its moot point. As a salesperson in the talent space, its a really difficult position to be in. Conscious of keeping all parties happy, recruiters feel compelled to brave the storm and try again, and again, and again even though they know the role is clearly doomed.  No matter what they do, the process keeps  bursting into flames; candidates dropping like flies. Are you a hiring manager with a role  your external recruiters cant seem to fill for you?  Before you start blaming your third party consultant, you should probably check your own backyard, because you might just find the real reasons are right there Its  not an interesting position Take a look at the job description. Would you want to do that job? Sure, recruiters will find ways to draw out the positives and sell that to suitable candidates, but if the role is genuinely not a desirable position, youre already starting the process on the back foot. Your expectations are unrealistic Not only is the job super boring-sounding, you are holding completely outlandish expectations regarding the type of candidate you want. How many of the essential applicant critera is actually truly essential, and how much of it is simply ideal or a nice to have? Knocking back perfectly capable candidates because they didnt go to one of your favourite universities is clearly not going to help with filling this position. The interview process is horrendous Even when recruiters  find candidates who are interested and ready to go in for an interview, you completely turn them off by staging a poorly organised interview. You make them feel like they are one of a million applicants you had to begrudgingly make time for, and then spend an hour grilling them. They leave feeling incredibly tired and deflated, and dont even want to join your company. You  delay everything On top of all this, you drag your heels at any opportunity to do so. You take weeks to review CVs, days to answer simple emails, way too long to book in interviews and the whole things is almost at a standstill. Recruiters find you candidates, who end up getting other jobs offered to them  before youve even looked at their CV. When it comes to hiring good people, time is of the essence! You arent paying enough money Some roles come with more challenges than others, and workers need to be compensated for their troubles. You are offering a salary thats below market rate and candidates know they can join a competitor and earn  considerably more. Youve done nothing to show them  the benefits of working for your company (at such a low salary) and for the candidates, its a huge no-brainer to go somewhere else. Your employer brand is  terrible One search on Glassdoor shows that people within your organisation are unhappy. Not only is your pay sub-par, but so are your working conditions. Your staff retention rate is extremely low, and the office space is dank. Your company website is in need of a makeover and has no human touch or warmth of any kind. Most candidates run Google searches on an organisation before applying for a role what do the results of the WWW have to say about your workplace? And there you have it. The cold hard truth. This is why recruiters cant fill that role of yours. They might not tell you so bluntly, because they dont want to offend you. But if you want to fill that role, you might want to consider a little revisit! **Obviously, this piece is a massive generalisation to get hiring managers thinking about their hard-to-fill roles a little differently ??