Do Your Homework First...

In anything we do, we should do our checkings, research or test first before doing something blindly. It could save us some embarassment and money.

I get many phonecalls from Banks offering Credit Cards or their services. One telemarketer from a particular bank called and offer a credit card. I told her I already have one. Why didn't the bank provide the telemarketers a list of people who are already their customers? Or why didn't they run the database list and cross check? Is it laziness? don't know how to use excel? or the bank has a lousy computer system? I am sure I am not the only one, and if the names could be eliminated, then the bank could save some money on phonecalls.

Same thing with Headhunters, the many Headhunters I know are very reactive. They wait for the sky to drop. They do not have the "oomp" to be proactive and check with their clients. One gave me a reply - the client didn't call back. At least some would say, I will check with the client in one week's time. And there is no follow-up. And I observe that most of them don't have the passion, and some reasons I can think of are they are not Human Resources Professionals before, they just want a job and their network is not good.