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When recruiters recruit someone, they apply a very simple method: if you have worked in the same industry for a competitor of their client or something very similar, you will be selected.

If you have worked for someone else or a different industry, your CV will stay aside.
It is what I call, the “copy/paste” selection…
Same industry, same level, same company.
They only recruit me-too or clones because it is the simplest way to please the client.

When I was myself a recruiter, the candidates I selected were candidates I had to copy/paste from the same industry.
I heard all the time from my clients:
“We need someone from the same industry who has done the same thing for 5 years”

If you have an unusual CV/resume, if you have transferable skills but no direct experience in this industry, if you have holes in your CV, if you have not done the same job for a couple of years, forget the recruitment agencies.

Recruiters are not creative because they have no time to waste with unusual CVs, or different background, they just want the same, they copy and paste.
They want to make money and have a no time to go through a pile of unusual CVs, so they select the same.
It is that simple, and it is another reason not to spend too much time sending your your CV/resume to agencies .

For a recruiter the ideal candidate is: same industry, same position in one of the big company.
They spare time and money if they can find this profile.

If you don’t have this precise profile, choose a most efficient way to find a job: your network and try to develop your reputation.

And yes, recruiters, as CVs, can be boring too!