How Executive Recruiters Can Sabotage Your Job Search

How Executive Recruiters Can Sabotage Your Job Search Olivia: All right, guys. Today, we wish to cover a really widespread misconception and it has to do with how government headhunters can sabotage your job search. A lot of instances if you’re the chief and also you wish to begin your search, the very first thing you do is you reach out to those headhunters, and you let them know you’re wanting. There’s a number of things wrong with that. Kevin has received the chief headhunter perspective and background, so he’s going to speak to that more particularly. Kevin: The primary thing to recollect is that headhunters don’t give you the results you want. They work for the consumer corporations whom are paying their retainers, or paying their search fees. I say all this not only having been a headhunter for more than a decade, however we now have some fantastic relationships with search corporations. Our talent agents are related in with a lot of the country’s prime search corporations. But, like everything else, not all headhunter s are created equally. You obtained some good ones out there who're going to be very forthright, then you definitely’ve received some of us who maybe are going to be less so. Some things to look out for are, number one, the connection that they've with their clients as a result of there’s a really giant payment, sometimes 20, 25, 30 upwards to 35% of your base wage, or even a mounted payment that might include extra compensation that comes together with you being rent. So there are further expectations in lots of instances when firms are contemplating working via a search agency with you. That’s only one factor. You want to be sure that they've a very tight relationship. Another factor that you want to check in on is are you truly ready to start getting out there and explore as a result of right here’s one thing that a headhunter doesn't wish to do. They don’t wish to put you in front of their client when you’re not absolutely dedicated to making a change yet. I understa nd that you don’t know until you begin to have exploratory conversations whether or not or not you’re going to make a shift, but if you’re actually just type of putting your toe out in the water, you possibly can sully your relationship, significantly with the highest headhunter who doesn’t wish to put you in front of their client until they know that, given the right alternative, you'd move. This is one of the many causes that Olivia and I put together the Should I Stay or Should I Go workbook. It’s more of an govt information that can assist you kind of work via that standards of must you stay the place you're, or must you go. A slightly shadier headhunter might push you to go when you should keep. Both Olivia and I will inform you flat out, it’s a lot simpler if the alternatives exist inside your present organization to stay there and grow, than it's to make that shift. Not solely is it tough professionally to make shifts. There’s additional wear and tear on your lo ved ones. There’s going into different … typically it’s a relocation, a myriad of things that go on. It’s not something that we take doubtless, nor we advise our clients to ever take flippantly.