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Another twist on this is that many big companies will pay their employees say a free ipod if they recruit someone to join the company, but will pay a recruiter
by tocomment 14y ago
Another twist on this is that many big companies will pay their employees say a free ipod if they recruit someone to join the company, but will pay a recruiter 20K or more.
That never seemed fair to me. I wonder if a twist on this is that the employee can refer his friend to the recruiter and then go to his employer and say I have a friend perfect for this job. He's represented by recruiter X. Then recruiter X splits the fee with the employee.
- dllthomas 14y agoThey don't want to pay enough that it distracts too much from people doing what they were really hired for.
- fecak 14y agoThat always seemed a bit odd to me as well, though I had a client a few years ago that had a points system where different referrals had points value (director = 10, sr engineer = 7, etc.) which they could use to get cars, cash, etc. It seemed to work well but didn't distract employees.
- YokoZar 14y agoOne possible (but not great) excuse is that there is a perverse incentive going on if the employee has any say over potential hires. If I get 20k every time one of my friends gets hired (and "lose" 20k each time a normal candidate gets hired) I have a huge incentive to not give a fully honest opinion about how good someone was during an interview. Big companies can use their size as a workaround (ie, only let you refer candidates to other departments), but in startup land this incentive will probably be very real.