A walk-in is how we refer to someone who, without an appointment, walks in off the street with a resume and demands to speak with someone.
Why don’t we like them?
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Are these really the conditions you want to be interviewed under?
I get the logic behind why people walk-in. Somewhere out there, someone is telling people that one way to get a job is walk in to offices with a resume and demand to be seen.
It could work.
But here’s a secret. The ratio between the number of people who walk off the street with a resume that actually get a job to those who don’t is very, very low. In most cases, you’re probably killing your chances before anyone has met you. You’d better have some serious talent if you decide that this is the approach for you. Unless you’re anything less than this:
You’re probably not getting a job.
In most cases, you’re going to potentially create a bad first impression by interrupting someone’s day without warning. Our thinking is, if you’re any good, you wouldn’t need to be walking in off the street. We would have heard of you by now. The expectation that the interview will be a waste of time is raised considerably when you’ve walked in.
Here’s another secret: if you walk in, someone will probably sit down with you. However, rarely will it be with a seasoned Recruiter. In the past, whenever we’d to get a call from reception asking who’d be free to take a walk-in, the general response would go something like this:
Who usually got assigned the walk-in? The junior Recruiter who just started and needs to ramp up their talent pool by doing practice interviews. We don’t expect much from walk-ins, may as well let the juniors hit their targets and make their mistakes with them.
Of course, we’ll assign someone to make sure that you don’t actually have the cure for cancer or any other such superpowers that may be of value to our clients. More realistically though we expect that you’re there to waste our time. You’ll need to put in double the effort to convince us otherwise. If we wanted to meet with you, we would have returned your call or responded to your e mail. Walking in isn’t really going to change that.
