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I'll second this, I've worked with a few really good recruiters. Most of them are so-so, but the great ones are great and can find amazing candidates in a matt
by com2kid 7y ago
I'll second this, I've worked with a few really good recruiters.
Most of them are so-so, but the great ones are great and can find amazing candidates in a matter of days.
You are basically paying to hire someone whose only job is to keep in touch with great people.
The so-so recruiters go through LinkedIn, the best recruiter I ever worked with, when I told her the type of person I was looking for, had someone immediately in mind and got back to me the next day with a phone number.
- seibelj 7y agoI will third this, I have a specific recruiter who works at an agency who I find superb. I always use her for hiring if possible. She finds solid candidates and takes the time to understand what you need, works her network, filters out what you don't like, and pitches your company properly. Well worth the fee if you can get the right person!
- mandeepj 7y ago> got back to me the next day with a phone number That means when your recruiter will leave - he\she will take your employees along
- andrewstuart 7y agoBoy recruiters sure do have a shonky reputation - is it deserved? Why the heck would I, as a recruiter, be so willing to shit in my own nest? Treat your clients - former and present with respect and integrity and you'll continue to get work into the future. Value money over good relationships and you'll soon be out of work. The thing that bugs me is that this is self evident, yet people keep assuming recruiters would behave this badly.
- mandeepj 7y agoSorry. I will try to balance it a little - a bit of poaching can happen with each of your employees' departure.
- andrewstuart 7y agoIf you are not my client then I will happily poach your people till you have none left. If you are my client, then I will only find a job for your employees if the employee in question has already left the company, or if the client has explicitly said to me "can you find a job for this employee who has left us?" Rules - there's rules for how to behave with integrity.
- username90 7y ago> If you are not my client then I will happily poach your people till you have none left. That was his point, as soon as your client is no longer your client you poach their engineers on behalf of your new clients. It might not work exactly like that with you, but I bet a lot of recruiters have no moral qualms about poaching from an ex-client.
- pyrale 7y agoI see nothing wrong with this. Employers are not entitled to their employees. While bad employers moan about getting poached, good employers make sure that their employees have meaningful reasons to stay. In sectors with no such pressure, employees have to pee in bottles just to shave a little bit of productivity.
- Haga 7y agoOur company got a sub contract via a recruiter. They actively tried to divide and conquer employees out of the company so they would have more leverage by withholding payment.
- com2kid 7y agoEmployees don't leave because a head hunter made them leave. They leave because they want to leave. Because someplace else offered them a job that they think will be better, be it pay, work environment, commute, work/life balance, or some other factor(s). Recruiters and head hunters just helped the ex-employee find out about a job that will, potentially, make them happier.
- __s 7y ago> Value money over good relationships and you'll soon be out of work. Yep, a little bit of money goes a long way in enabling an early retirement
- com2kid 7y agoShe knew someone who had just left their previous job the day before. Worked out well, hired and worked together for a couple years until the project ended.
- draw_down 7y agoDon't hate the player, hate the game.
- megaremote 7y ago> You are basically paying to hire someone whose only job is to keep in touch with great people. And all the other companies they work for.