The ex-CEO’s Job Blog – part 2
pharmafile | September 13, 2012 | Feature | Sales and Marketing | Jobs, careers, interviews, the ex-CEO's job blog
Would you believe everything a used car salesman tells you? Of course not. So why do so many people accept at face value what they are told at interview?
You must do your due diligence or else you stand the very real chance of messing up your CV and your career.
Agency people are very good at smiling and delivering BS to fill their vacancies – plus to be honest – some recruiters participate in the deception by sending candidates to inappropriate companies in the first place just for the commission.
I speak almost weekly to people who tell me about their nightmare situations of sweatshops, bullying managers, micro managers and plain dysfunctional operations – all of which are just simply unpleasant places to spend a lot of your life.
So check out your potential new employers by speaking to their current employees and people who have recently left the agency. Then ask around more. Ask searching questions of colleagues in other agencies. Only then will you get a true picture of what you might be letting yourself in for.
Now on to the communication agencies themselves. Those of us who worked in these agencies know how poor pharma client briefs can be, don’t we? Well they are comprehensive compared to what some comms. agencies give to their recruitment partners! Trying to get real job descriptions out of some of them is like getting blood out of a stone. Most won’t say what accounts new recruits would be working on and very few will let recruiters visit to get a flavour of their operation.
Why on earth is this? If you were selling your house, you wouldn’t phone the estate agent and say: “sell my three bed semi for £500K, but you can’t come and see it”.
More on this subject in later postings.
David Barratt can be reached by email at: david.barratt@austinlee.co.uk
This article is a sponsored editorial for Austin Lee, resourcing specialists
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