
Exclusive v/s Mass Recruitment Agency Usage
Exclusive v/s Mass Recruitment Agency Usage The background What I am about to tell you is no secret among external agency recruiters. The topic is just not spoken about enough! A Case in Point! Sound familiar? In a recent conversation with my client, she confirmed that they use 5 agencies per job order. She mentioned that they prefer to engage multiple agencies at one time in order to increase their chances of receiving more available candidates. This is contrary to our belief as one/two quality recruiters on a specific brief is in the clients’ far best interests For this particular vacancy they received 25 CVs (from all the agencies and internal referrals) and interviewed 9 candidates. I indicated that 2 agencies would have submitted the same 9 candidates they interviewed, confirming that her short list contained the names of whom we elected not to submit since they had also been