I am tired of the economy..... In this day and age of people looking for jobs, we are here to simply here to help.... Why do we have to jump through hoops and walk on fire to try to get on the vendors list? in this job market, I know hospitals need physicians and nurses, In the IT field, there are positions that are availiable everyday and also in the Wind Energy department I know the wind turbines need to be worked on... can anyone tell me whey some of these HR departments are soooooo tough to work with??
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The bottom line is to get good candidates for the clients. My question is this... If a recruiter can't handle the load, in which all of us good recruiters know this can get overwhelming, why not get outside assistance.. if the recruiter is working hard and filling the needs by themselves, I agree, you don't need to pay an agency if this is all handled internally. But the internal recruiter needs to understand they need help. I understand that all people are looking out for there jobs, but this way can help fill the needs quickly.
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Who said corporate recruiters can't recruit from the competition? That has not been my experience. It may true at some places but it is far from true everywhere. And really, if a company can get good candidates from their own recruiter why should they pay an agency??
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Best Business Sense??
Most Corporate Recruiters do come from agencies anyway, the remaining members try to do the best they can with what they understand! The base salary and benefits, is definitely the safer road now - can't blame them! Agencies, especially the self employed are Yes! having a tough time now, straight commission isn't what it used to be. More and more companies truly believe not paying fees will impact the bottom line??? However, companies are sitting on unfilled requirements, many projects losing money, great ideas are being lost, back logs are way out of control, sales are tougher to get and guota's are being missed. Its not about ROI (return on investments) anymore, it's not about finding exceptional men and women, its about those terrible fees! Great Recruiters, ones over 10 years in business exist because they have a history of presenting exceptional talent, but unfortunately todays clients are satisfied with what they can get, expecting an awful lot from their internal HR departments. We all know that Corporate Recruiters do not recruit, they can't, their prohibited from "ripping people away", so its about advertising, collecting and building databases for the future and doing wonderful key word searches! Did I forget traveling, attending career fairs, sitting on committee's, making presentations to groups, meeting with other Corporate Recruiters and "sharing?" True recruiting means taking away from their competitors, which again, they are not allowed to do. True Recruiting means calling candidates who are not looking! You know! The ones who are incrediby successful that can turn a business around overnight! So who loses by not paying those terrible fees? Oh I know! You lost because you hired the wrong candidate, it was that terrible Recruiter or could it have been because you had a weak decision "team" or process! Hey! How how about those requirements, kind of vague, didn't get all the info? Do all the fees really add up to more than someones salary? Let us all look to the heavens and say, "Give me a break!" The day a Corporate Recruiter can write a "realiable and correct" Job Order, can teach hiring managers individually how to make decisions without hand holding, can explain effectively the greatness of a candidate, the greatness of their own company, I will continue to pick up the phone and Recruit for THAT FEE. The financial rewards my clients received have far exceeded the "paltry" fee I charged!
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Serena,
I totally agree with you, and know about the bottom line in this crazy economy. My goal is not to take peoples jobs, but to find them, I know that this whole process can be streamlined with communication. let us assist, and fill all the open reqs that come in the door. Not to go over inhouse recruiters, but hand in hand aid them. Believe me, this can work out just fine if we can simply get our foot in the door...
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As a corporate recruiter working in HR for a large corporation, I can share that there is certainly pressure right now to keep costs down. Personally it's not my intention at all to make it difficult for agencies to work with us, but at this time of financial hardship, it doesn't make the best business sense to pay thousands of dollars in fees to headhunters when my company is paying me to perform that function. If my company were to have to pay for just a few agency candidates in a year it can add up to more than my total salary--so what would they need my role for? Perhaps the defensiveness you're experiencing from internal recruiters is precisely that: a mechanism to hold on to their own livelihood in this dire economy.
