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> How do these people stay in business? By finding enough candidates for enough businesses willing to pay the huge finders' fees that recruiting firms demand.
by mikece 5y ago
> How do these people stay in business?
By finding enough candidates for enough businesses willing to pay the huge finders' fees that recruiting firms demand.
One of the things that amazes me is that companies will pay a recruiting firm tens of thousands of dollars to find a candidate that makes it through the interview process and stays there for at least 90 days but then they only offer $500 to their employees for referrals that get hired. I pointed out to HR at one company that I worked for that one of their recruiting partners pays $1000 for a referral that gets hired; given how much they would pay a recruiter, they should be offering at least $5,000 referral bonuses to someone recommends a candidate they hire, whether the person making the recommendation is an employee or not. They decided to increase the referral bonus to match the recruiting company (I kept feeding referrals for my employer through said recruiting agency -- my relationship with them started before and lasts long after being with that employer).
- throwawaynay 5y agoI guess what I meant is:why is no one doing better than them? Most of the decent approaches I've seen were either coming from founders or once from an ex-engineer who became a recruiter, basically never from a typical recruiter, why is no one obliterating them?
- t-3 5y agoIt's a "soft-skills" job, which requires dealing with many, many, many liars and cheats, and trying to maintain a reputation. Not a job that can be easily solved by technology.
- throwawaynay 5y ago"many liars and cheats" I guess it takes one to know one? A decent technical test would weed out any actual liar, no? or do we need people who thinks they're fbi interrogators?
- t-3 5y agoThere is no "one size fits all" technical test, and if there was, the answers would be for sale and you'd be back to square one. People are a hard problem.
- throwawaynay 5y agoI don't see how coding in front of someone(no matter the problem) can be worse than a random non technical guy trying to guess if you're lying or not
- t-3 5y agoNot all technical jobs involve coding, and of those that do, it's not always the top priority.