The Secret of Successful Jobseekers

I saw a post on Linkedin in which a candidate had tagged several leading Recruitment agencies in the GCC and was effectively calling them out for not coming back to them.

Now to be transparent, this isn’t me calling out other agencies or even the individual who posted the status. 

While we weren’t one of the agencies they tagged, we very easily could have been.  

This is a market which tries to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people who are looking to secure roles here. No response is a response when you are trying to work with such volumes. 

After three years of Recruiting here for some of the biggest firms in the region, I’ve come to realise this. 

The job market here isn’t broken, it just operates under a great deal of stress. 

It definitely works as people do get jobs here. It just happens to work with close to 100x the volume you’d expect from other markets going through job funnels. 

I know what works and I know what doesn’t work. I advise as many candidates as I can and here’s what the most successful ones do well.