Applied online. Phone screen, In-person interview, personality and strengths testing. The recruiter and I spoke many times on the phone and she repeatedly said that she believed in transparency. However, every time I talked to her, she revealed something new about the job. Ultimately, the offer was very low, the benefits were too high of a cost, and the recruiter revealed after my offer letter was sent that, it was not actually an 8-5 job and that I would need to work a lot additionally from home to succeed. The commission scale was never physically presented to me, and the explanation of the commission scale and evaluation process of the recruiters was sketchy at best. I guess for a trucker making over $50,000 a year the benefits probably are good. But for a recruiter being offered $33,000 after taxes, and paying benefits I would have made $23,000 a year with only 4 sick days off in a year. She said that I should rely more on my commission than base salary, but the commission was explained in VERY round about way, no facts or printouts presented. When I called to possibly negotiate, the recruiter acted offended that was even trying to negotiate anything at all. If the recruiter had been honest about all aspects of the job in the phone screen, we would have both not wasted our time. Additionally, when I requested to give my social security number verbally rather than send it over by email, the recruiter was awestruck and told me that I caught her off guard and that I was the first person who had ever tried to protect their SS#! As a recruiter, myself, and been in the business for 3 years now, and obtaining my master's in HR, companies should really not ask for SS# until the time of hire. If you ask for it on an application, then you are making yourself liable to protect applicants information that you may not even interview. And if you do interview them and don't hire, you still have to protect that info. for a year legally before you can purge and shred. NOTE To RECRUITERS: do your homework. Trucking recruiting is a tough business and on average an entry-level driver recruiter with 2-3 years of other recruiting experience in middle TN makes an average of $60,000 a year.
