🚩 Red Flags in Recruitment: Watch Out for Intermediaries

In this post, we’ll talk about the people from the recruitment agency you interact with as a client.

Scenario: You’ve contacted an agency. You seem to be satisfied with everything. You’ve reached the stage of a detailed discussion of the vacancy.

🚩 Red flag: you communicate with the recruiter through intermediaries

The first contact with the agency usually happens through a sales manager or account manager. This is normal.

An alarming signal is when these same employees continue to communicate with you at the stages of briefing, searching, etc. You also need to see the recruiter who is closing the vacancy.

As a result, the agency may bring you people who are poorly suited to the vacancy and the company’s needs.

💚 Green flag: a competent expert is in touch

You regularly communicate with an expert on your vacancy. This could be a team lead, a recruiter, or a team of several people.

How to understand that this is an expert?

1️⃣ The expert from the agency wants to talk to the hiring manager.

A conversation with the hiring manager will clarify what they want from the candidate. No one knows this better than the person to whom the future employee will report. It’s important not to play broken telephone and talk in person, says Olga Makarova, executive search consultant at NEWHR Recruiting.

2️⃣ The expert asks questions about the vacancy and the company.

3️⃣ They consult you on the situation in the market and provide feedback.

4️⃣ Services are not too cheap. Otherwise, there is a chance that a not-very-experienced expert will work with the vacancy. Also, by lowering the price the agency can save on the recruiter’s working tools (access to LinkedIn and job boards). This will increase the search time and narrow the circle of relevant candidates.

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