Looking for a new job and recruiters being really demeaning
I am a woman in my early 30s, currently working as a senior accountant in renewable sector, have 7 years of experience - over 4 years in audit (big 4) and 3 years in the private company. At the current company any promotion takes very long time (5 years to be promoted to the supervisor and even longer to manager due to the career ladder at the company). I am currently working on my cpa. Recently started looking for a new job and got in contact with recruiters looking for a senior accountant or supervisor roles and I kid you not- each and every one of them tries to undermine my experience, telling me that my skill set is not what their clients looking for (I have month end, quarter end, year end close, using accounting software on a daily, assisting with audits, day to day reconciliations and working in my areas assigned, cooperating with other departments, etc). At this point I feel extremely annoyed by the tone of recruiters and sometimes their blatant disrespect on the phone or ms teams call. They are also aggressively pushing Siegfried group onto me too, even though I told each of them I don’t want to work public accounting hours (the main reason why I left big 4 about 3 years ago).
Does anyone have the same issues? I really thinking to stop relying on recruiters now and start applying for jobs myself without involving them like I did right after the grad school. When I was looking for a job 3 years ago I certainly had better opportunities with the same recruiters and they also tend to be more respectful.