What is the difference between recruiters and career coaches?
The career coach works for the individual job hunter while recruiters work for companies. Career coaches and recruiters work for two distinctly different sets of clients. Career coaches help their individual clients to find jobs while recruiters help their client companies find employees to fill open positions. • Okay. Then do recruiters place people in jobs? No, and this is a second ironic misconception. Recruiters don’t care about finding jobs for people. They make their living by filling open positions with the most qualified people they can find. There is no reason for them to be interested in the average out-of-work professional. Often the most qualified people are not even looking for a job, but are successfully employed at other companies. And even when the recruiter finds the ideal candidate, he/she can only recommend the person to the company. Recruiters present qualified candidates to companies, and sometimes conduct preliminary screening interviews. Career coaches work with
