How to work with an Agency, Firm, Headhunter, Executive Search Pro. etc.

[Don Lubach]

We'll be meeting some professionals this term. I hope to learn from them some good information about how we can be excellent clients and make the most out of our work with an agency. Here's some good reading to get us started. The Riley Guide, my very favorite of the giant, meta-resources, has a section on how to work with agencies. I would love to hear tips and suggestions from our community on this topic. Post them here.

Don

[Don Lubach]

This was a wonderful session! I gushed on "Linked-In" about our guests. They were all great. Thanks to all who attended this session. If you're willing, I'd love for a few of you to post some of your notes. What are the key points you learned from our panel?

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[Betsy Robertson]

For a beginner in this "age of work" job-hunting, I found it an interesting session, even slightly encouraging. I think, though, I would have found it more helpful had there been a basic handout of info, saying, for instance, this is what you should bring to an employment agency, factual stuff besides the important (but for some of us elusive) sense of optimism.

Fwiw, I hope that the next series of this oh-so-helpful series is restructured so that resumes, for instance, are at the beginning rather than near the end. I don't have a resume and have but the faintest idea of how to make an effective one and that ignorance, of course, eliminates any likelihood of going to an agency. Opinions of whether to bring in one page or five pages are quite meaningless when one has no pages.

This, to restructure, is not meant as a criticism but as a suggestion and perhaps it's a distinct minority opinion: clearly, many if not most in the class have resumes and all the rest of the basics. ...Maybe there should be two series: one basic skills, the other more advanced, such as the employment specialist for financial pros.

... I see you asked for "key points of what (I) learned" and I have to say that the key points were that it IS possible to find a job of some sort in Santa Barbara and that SB is a micro-climate, so to speak in terms of employment (this from Karen Dwyer, I think, - didn't get the name of her agency (found it: Express Employment Professionals) and the Select representative), and that for high-paying financial jobs, a probably limited field in terms of applicants, how very difficult it is.