You recently addressed the question of how to work with a recruiter. Your answer was encouraging, as the steps you had outlined were precisely the actions I had taken with a recruiter at a metro-sized paper I was looking to get to.
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However, if I may be so bold, allow me to add on to that question: How do you work with a recruiter, who after two years of cultivation, accepts a buyout offer and retires?
Should I accept that I am back to square one? Or would I be well within my rights to stage a hunger strike outside the front doors of this paper, refusing to eat only until they offer me a job?
Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks for your time.
Sincerely,
Hungry
This IS a problem. I have heard of people who will work for food, but I never before heard of someone who would starve for work.
In the past six months, we have said goodbye to good recruiters in Akron, Cleveland, Dallas and Phoenix.
You may well be back to square one, depending on whether they circulated your name and material. I'd start to pick up the pieces by getting in touch with the new recruiter, if there is one, or the editor in charge of the department you were trying to get on with. I often circulate word on people I have been recruiting. The frequency of those conversations depends greatly on the receptivity of individual hiring editors.
The recruiters at these four papers are all conscientious people who, I bet, left their files in a state that successors could pick up the trail. So, make those contacts soon and encourage them to check the files.
This year, an even larger newspaper will lose its recruiter. Going forward, make sure you have more than one contact at places in which you are especially interested. Ask the recruiters to help you before there is a change.
Coming Monday: Sober for several years now, he worries that he will have to put his conviction for drunken driving down on the application and that this will lead to questions about his alcoholism.
