What Corporate Recruiters Really Want From A Staffing Agency
Let me be really clear here to start this post off: I’m not hating on staffing agencies. In fact, far from it. I actually grew up on the agency side; I cut my teeth there. I made my bones there. And I clearly have watched Goodfellas like a hundred times too many. I’m grateful for my external recruitment experience and wouldn’t trade it for anything.
That may come as a tremendous surprise to most of you, but as a technical recruiter working in-house, I get a lot of calls from agency recruiters. Like, a lot. And they suck.
Allow us to take a moment, to mourn for those whose heads just exploded from shock.
I want to give something back to the staffing agency world where I grew up. This is a “let me help me help you….help me” type of mini-festo. Read More
Corporate recruiters get solicitations all the time from external recruiters/agencies to help them with their open positions, with some building on existing business, and some trying to drum up new business. It’s all part of the recruiting “circle of life”. And when you’ve established a relationship with an agency, and they proactively send you candidates that you might be interested in, this can be perceived as them really understanding your business. (Assuming the resume that is pitched is on target….) And presumably, if you’ve already worked out the arrangement this process with them, you’ll respect the relationship and not then recruit someone they have presented to you, or you’ll let them know if they are already in your records. But, then what about the proactive submission of a candidate from an agency you’ve never heard of/worked with and have no pre-existing relations with? What’s the decorum there?
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