A Mail and a response
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your thoughts. Oh yeah! I took liberty of selling our group too ;-)
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Dear CONSULTANT Friends,
The following incident has been reported by a few consultants, and I
have been requested to post the same to the HR groups and request
solutions / comments, regarding the following issue.
Some candidates seeking a change in the job, discuss the various job
opportunities available with the Recruitment Consultant/s, agree for a
job role / organisation, and then whne the meeting / interview is
scheduled, decide at the eleventh hour, that they won't go for the
interview, for one reason or the other. OR, they get offered by the
prospective organisation, and these candididate decide to either
negotiate with another organisation for better package. Thus the
recruitment consultants cut a very sorry figure.
Its a request to the consultants to step out in the open and comment /
suggest ways to deal with such situation and help fellow conultant /
organisations, to reduce such incidents.
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Hi
For your query, I would say that there is no direct and immeidate
solution to the issue you have mentioned. Rather, it is a sum of
remainders of what recruiters have done in the past. Lets see, have
consultants not proposed the same candidates candidature/candidacy for
more than one company ever? If yes, then candidates have 100% rights to
pursue other options through other consultants. Moreover, the industry
trend has to be redrawn. A true recruiter would be more of a career
consultant in specific areas/technologies/domains rather than "just
forwarding resumes" to clients. Now, when a consultant (usually with
just a functional background in HR) talks to a candidate, they tend to
"sell" a job and the client to the candidate, *without* bothering to
understand what the candidate is capable of, or what s/he wants to do
in life. Hence, there is no actual mapping between candidates and
clients.
Lets take for example. I have this candidate (rather a friend) whom I
talked to for my client. A good apps developer guy. I offered him a big
chunk, knowing that he deserved a better company if not a better pay.
He got into the biggest company in the arena. Now, I spoke to him,
knowing that there is no point talking to him about considering my
offer, maintained a good relation with him, wished him luck. Then, he
helped me in getting his employer as a client (Yes, he introduced me to
the HR folks). Then, I got another client, a really great research
company looking for good apps dev guys, I spoke to him (yeah!
shamelessly poaching from my own client) about the opening. He asked my
why I was approaching him inspite of knowing that he is happy with
where he is working.
My answer was simple.. "I know you deserve better, not money, just
work." He smiled and said, "I am not planning to move for the next 2
years, so maybe after that :-)" Hence, the good relation stays on.
Now, the question of ethic. When I do this, should I be okay with
others doing it to me? I say, "Yes". It is not about one being ethical
or not. Every individual has a right to choose, and hence if a
candidate chooses not to show-up, for the interview, or on the joining
date, then it is a choice they have made. There is nothing wrong with
that, BUT, it would be ethical if they informed the recruiter, which
solely depends on how much worth they consider the recruiter to call
and inform, and this... depends on how well the recruiter poses himself
to be.
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