With All Due Respect!

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With all due respect…

We respect and value our customers.  And we understand that business needs can change quickly, and with all due respect, we have a business too.  Look, we get a call. “It’s high priority! Find us “this” – ASAP!” We take our direction and prioritize the search (over other valued customers) based on the sense of urgency. We grind it out and invest our time and resources to find candidates who meet the requirements, are in the salary range, and interested in the specific opportunity.  We identify them, we screen them, we thoroughly interview them and have discussions with their professional references (which we might add not ALL recruiters do) all before our customers ever see them.   Then it happens –  a change in direction and often multiple times. We start over. Again. Then again. And maybe even again. We produce results for each new change and we do it with a sense of urgency and a smile on our face. Because that’s our job and we do it well. So with all due respect, please respect us in return. We aren’t a non-profit organization.  We work on commission.   That “free” time we invested in that urgent search(es) resulted in a waste of your time, our time, the time of our candidates, and often damaged our reputation with the candidates. Our vision is ‘Success for Everyone’ and with each project our mission is to create win for you, our candidates, and for us.  Unfortunately, no one wins in this situation.  We get it – businesses have changing needs, but with all due respect, help us help you better by doing these things:

  • Get all hiring decision makers on the same page prior to giving us the specs
    • This will avoid having to make changes after reviewing resumes/interviewing candidates
  • Notify us immediately as things change
    • Business needs change, people change their minds, internal candidates surface unexpectedly we get it! Tell us and we’ll adjust our priorities to better meet your current needs.
  • Give us timely and candid feedback
    • So we can keep moving in the right direction for you

Respectfully, we thank you!