Breaking deadlines seems to be an Adelaide phenomenon. Sure, clients in Sydney sometimes break deadlines but in Adelaide, it’s a disease.
The cruel truth is people who fail to notify us they’re going to break a deadline speaks volumes about their professionalism.
It tells us the employment document is not very important and they’ve got better things to do.
We get Australia tourists travelling through Japan, Bali and across Australia emailing us, wanting a quote.
What’s the point? You need to be home to work in partnership with us because you need access to information.
Emailing us from a holiday when you’re 5000 kilometres away is a ‘brain fart’.
In our very first email when we supply the quote, we ask prospective clients to get back to us with a ‘please proceed’ or a ‘no thanks’.
If they can’t do that by a specific date and time, we delete them as they’re window shoppers and tyre kickers.
It also shows they can’t work online.
Break any deadline without notification and we terminate immediately. Why?
- It shows the client isn’t professional.
- It shows he or she can’t manage their time.
- It shows getting a job is low on their list of priorities.
- It disrespects the writer or writers.
- It attacks our business model.
- It wastes time we could have spent helping people who are desperate to get a job.
The profile of the deadline breaker for recruiters is not hopeful.
Job applicants who can’t think objectively about why deadlines are important are rarely short-listed.
They are wasting their time and ours.