As secretarial recruitment agencies, we have all dealt with them, arrogant sycophantic megalomaniacs who firmly believe that dealing with you is totally beneath them. They act like they have about 10 different hot Companies chasing them all the time.

No secretarial recruitment agencies want to work with this sort of person.

Then there is the other end of the scale:

• The desperado jobseeker types who will eat your hand off for anything.
• They carpet bomb your inbox with "currently available" notices.
• They hang around forums and discussions like a omnipresent bad smell.
• They scream I'm desperate and will take anything.
• They hound the hiring manager like a determined sniffer dog.
• They permanently grace secretarial jobs boards with their presence.

Then somewhere in between is the perfect admin secretarial job candidate.

1. Well balanced, unassuming when asked about what other secretarial vacancies they have recently applied for.
2. They emit a subtle dignified air of inaccessibility.
3. They are in demand for their secretarial jobs expertise.
4. They play the secretarial recruitment game exceptionally well.

Being too Cocky.

• No employer wants their face rubbed in it.
• It can be a turn off to know that you are interviewing with 5 other competitors.
• It's very rare that an employer will change the timescale of their secretarial recruitment process to suit one secretarial jobs candidate unless they are exceptionally good, so trying to impose your own deadlines onto the secretarial recruitment process does not generally work well and makes you look manipulative and controlling.
• It can be very risky to play one Company against another unless you have solid firm admin secretarial job offers on the table. My experience is that most people who resort to this behaviour don't.
• Telling them that you have other offers on the table without substantiating it will often lead the hiring manager to believe that you are playing off invented offers to drive their offer up. This again will get their back up
• Being over cocky turns people off. You can get declined, passed over and overlooked for future secretarial vacancies.

Being too desperate.

Never refer to yourself as "the Candidate". You are a respectable, experienced person act befitting of such and firmly avoid high street "recruiter speak" degrading yourself.

Never tell anyone you are secretarial jobs seeking. Companies and Employers are allergic to secretarial jobs seekers. They want in post, qualified in demand people.

So give them the impression that you are busy with projects, consulting, anything, just don't plant the image of you sitting at home jobs seeking.

Veil that desperation as best you can, don't let even a peak of it shine through right the way to the end of the interview process.

Try to portray a quiet dignified confident air about you. These are the Candidates that are most likely to succeed.