Corporate recruiters, mindful that they now hold the reins, say it's time for an attitude adjustment. Md. To hear recruiters tell it, the tight labor market of the past year has really set high-tech job seekers loose. In a trend that companies began to notice last year and that continues today, the formal interview has gone by the wayside as some applicants arrive late or unprepared to meetings with businesses looking to hire them. The good news is, most of the bad habits that job seekers picked up can be easily dropped, if they recognize the turnoffs, job counselors say. Rob Morris, director of corporate recruiting at the Adrenaline Group in Washington, says he wishes potential employees would turn off their cell phones and ax the third-party conversations during job interviews.
Candidates have to realize they are being evaluated during every stage of the process.
Conversation, handling the utensils it's all those little things. There's no excuse for that anymore with the Internet. That message seems to be lost on some people. Like it or not, personal appearance also makes a difference, recruiters say. For purely technical positions such as computer programming and some project-management roles, job seekers don't need to bother with a suit.