Dealing with agencies: Old hand or total novice?
We had a nice candidate walk through our doors the other day, charming but clueless. She had never been to a staffing service before and presumably didn’t know what to expect. When told about a rather fabby job we had, she somehow didn’t believe her luck and started grilling us; e.g. Us: “Billions in assets”. Her: “Well, it has to be a major corporation”. Us: “Unless you think we mean billions of quetzbogs, not billions of dollars, we can assume it’s a major corporation”. Ok, conversation didn’t go 100% like that, but the naive woman clearly had a trust