Most sought-after IT professionals revealed

Apparently BA's are difficult to find but that's probably because noone wants to take in juniors for training! It's a field I'd love to get into, but find virtually impossible to do.
 
nfbs said:
The report says the number of applicants per IT job on that jobsite is much lower than any other industry. (10 applications per job).
The reason for this from my experience is IT recruiters because employers need to use them. Recruiters are very vague with job positions on job sites as they just want you on their db.

You have to go to the recruiter for a personal interview, you get registered on their database and there after no contact. (Abacus and Communicate are two examples). This makes you feel you can't get a job with that recruiter when the opposite is true once you get an interview it is easy.

IT recruiters like giving only 1 or 2 CVs at a time to employees despite not having an exclusively mandate. If you do go for an interview arranged by a recruiter and you asked them to tell you about available positions most of the time they have no clue and they make it sound like they only have only 1 possible job opening despite advertising ten.

I have gone for more interviews with recruiters in my life than interviews with employers and for every 3 recruiters that have my CV only one has arranged an interview.

My hit rate is for every 2 interviews I get offered a job. The employers I have worked for all ask me where they can find other candidates like me because recruiters send them so few quality candidates.

From my experience just to get given an opportunity at a job position in the areas I am interested working in is the biggest thing irrespective or skills, experience and qualifications.
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Ive heard this before as well. Why are recruiters doing this?
 
metalcore said:
Ive heard this before as well. Why are recruiters doing this?
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Because IT recruitment agents are 98% no skill immature females who cannot keep a job for a long time and have no clue of judging suitable candidates for a position.
 
vangend said:
A few weeks ago I saw an advert on careerjunction for a CCIE offered 35000pm, I think they must still be looking for one with that k@k salary
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:O thats like R10k less than I make and I only have A+!!!? WTF
 
vangend said:
A few weeks ago I saw an advert on careerjunction for a CCIE offered 35000pm, I think they must still be looking for one with that k@k salary
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That's kinda like DD in durbs wanting to pay a CCIE 500k a year, did I laugh :D
 
metalcore said:
Ive heard this before as well. Why are recruiters doing this?
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With all the skillsets available out there, do you honestly believe the general recruiters out there have any clue about the actual position and are able to judge a candidate as being viable?
When submitting CVs in the UK, I was constantly phoned by recruiters for senior c developer positions, even though that's not the job I was looking for and that I'd only ever done an intro to visual c++ programming module at varsity and had no programming experience.
Recruiters look at the job title, look on a CV to see if the wording appears in your CV and say you're perfect for the position, even though they have no clue what it means.
 
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