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Hi,
I thought I will come on the forum and ask the following from experience individuals. I have been with my current firm for almost 5 years and I've been looking for a new role for almost 1-1.5 years. I am working with a 3rd party recruiting firm and I had successful rounds of interview with Hiring Manager, his manager and a team member. The last portion was completed 2nd week of December which went well and hiring manager gave me a disclaimer that their HR takes awhile.
Right now, my recruiting firm is working with their HR and asked for my previous years this was about 2 weeks ago and no word. I understand currently it is holiday time and many individuals are off. Should I be worried, as I have a lot of incidents that crosses through my mind: I am their 2nd option, position was close, and so on.
I also asked around and people mention maybe they are doing a background check. The company and staffing firm just have my resume no SS# info so they technically cannot find my information without it, no?
THANKS!
edit: changed staffing to recruiting
Last edited by throwaway123; 12-29-2014 at 11:46 AM..
Why are you relying on your staffing firm to find you a new job? I'm shocked they are helping you. They usually want you to stay with the original client forever and if you express any desire to move on they will tell you no or fire you as soon as they find a replacement and blacklist you.
Why are you relying on your staffing firm to find you a new job? I'm shocked they are helping you. They usually want you to stay with the original client forever and if you express any desire to move on they will tell you no or fire you as soon as they find a replacement and blacklist you.
I do apologize. I believe I used the wrong term but they are a recruiting firm. They get paid if the firm they send me for an interview wants to hire me as a commission.
I see. That is different you are using an executive recruiter who gets paid a fee for placement rather than a staffing agency that keeps the difference between what the client is paying them and what they pay the worker. That makes more sense.
Ask the recruiter if they have dealt with them before & this is typical. I was 'recruited' by a recruiter a couple of years ago. & while it didn't lead to an offer (wrong field in the height of the recession) one thing I did appreciate is that they were great at ferretting out info I could not/would not know to ask. Some firms- especially when going through HR- really do take a month to decide anything. I had always assumed that all positions got filled within 48 hours of interviews because that was my previous experience.
Also- if you are second choice & end up getting the job- you'll still have the job offer. If its better than your current position make the jump. I was once a second pick but got a job because they decided they needed an additional new hire at the 11th hour of the hiring process. It's not like settling in marriage where someone always questions what might have been. Even small businesses hire countless people over time so as long as you are qualified, capable how you ended up in the job does not matter. How you perform will.
Before they start a background check, you sign/agree to it and give specific info such as SSN, DOB, addresses for past X years and answer questions about prior arrests/convictions. Usually the drug screening goes on around the same time as the background check. It most companies both of these are initiated within a day or two of you accepting an offer.
Yesterday I received and update from the recruiter and I was given an verbal offer which I agreed to.
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