Case Study: Your recruitment agency isn’t supporting your job application; should you apply through a second one?

A Betts Blog subscriber rang to ask my view about how he should manage his current Job Application last week, because he finds himself with something of a dilemma to overcome.

Having applied for a position he really wants through a Recruitment Agency a few days earlier, he then noticed that a second Agency is also handling the role.  The Candidate had read my recent Blog article, Moral of the Tale: If you are job hunting build bridges, don’t burn them and he wanted to discuss how he might best proceed, to give himself a good chance of being considered for the job.

The Candidate explained how he’d first sent his CV to Agency A and then a few days later called to follow-up and enquire about the status of his application, because he’d heard nothing from them.  Rather shockingly (in my view) he was told that such information was confidential and when he finally put the phone down, he had no idea if he was being shortlisted or not.

More Aviation Companies Hired than Fired in 2011

According to online aviation job distribution network JSfirm (Booth No. 7244), the first two quarters of this year should be a good time to find a job in the aviation industry. The Fort Worth, Texas-based company released the results of its latest Aviation Industry Hiring Trends survey here at Heli-Expo. The survey indicates that companies across the aviation spectrum hired more people than they cut last year and expect to hire additional personnel this year.

“Eight-five percent of companies surveyed expect to hire in 2012,” said JSfirm manager Jeff Richards. The survey spanned various aviation sectors including rotorcraft, general aviation, corporate and commercial aviation. About 41 percent of respondents represented small firms employing 30 people or fewer, while 92 respondents represented large companies employing more than 501 people.