Do you think that the commison based objectives of recruitment consultants hurts job seekers?

Like employers, recruitment consultants’ motives can be different to your own whilst still offering a real benefit to you. A recruitment consultant is paid by the employer once the employee has accepted their new role. This is good for you since it means that they are motivated to get you into a job.

However, the truth is that it doesn’t matter (to them) which job they get you into, nor do they care too much about getting you the extra 5k pounds you want on your final salary since, it makes little difference to their commission, and is probably not worth upsetting the client who will spend with them again. More importantly since the recruitment consultant is charging a fee for finding you (between 15%-30% of your annual salary) you will have to demonstrate that much extra benefit to your new employer to compete with somebody who has found the role themselves through networking or research. As such my best advice to you would be to find out who the employer is from the recruitment consultant and then tell them that you have already been represented for that role, but actually represent yourself.

This will effectively add up to 30% of you annual salary to your productivity. Make you a much more attractive candidate in these lean times and give you significant leverage come salary negotiation time. You also need to be aware that recruitment consultants will often ask you for information regarding other opportunities that you are interviewing for or are interested in.

They are trying to tap into your newly developed personal network and that of their competitors so that they can send their candidates to compete for the other roles you are interested in. Obviously this is detrimental for you and should be avoided at all costs. You can learn more about how to deal with recruitment consultants and how to benefit from their information whilst still representing yourself by downloading my free chapter on recruitment consultants here (www.howdoigetajobuk.com) as well as every other aspect of finding and getting a new job.

These are some of the questions you should ask yourself. Recruitment consultants can often have connections to employers that you don't have and it is not uncommon for many positions to never see a public ad or job board. For specialist positions and highly skilled positions and newly created jobs (like IT and other tech or cloud positions), a recruitment agency can be the best way in.

There are some excellent boutique recruitment companies that really do care about you and the employers. Remember, without candidates, the recruiters can't fulfill their paying clients' requirements. So, like anything shop around and ask others if they have experience with any recruitment agencies.

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