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Originally Posted by PriscillaVanilla
No, it's not that likely you'll be referred by more than one recruiter to the same job. Recruiters want job seekers to tell them where else they are interviewing, so they can find out about open job positions.
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PV,
You are merging what you think you know with what you don't know.
I am referring to a scenario where an applicant has signed up with multiple agencies and
subsequently, there appears a vacancy being advertised for a position for which the applicant is qualified.
Two or more agency recruiters will then send that same person's resume to that same employer, hoping the company agrees to interview their client, the applicant.
1. One agency will contact HR who agrees to receive the resume;
2. Another agency will contact the HA actually hiring for the position who will agree to receive the resume from that agency;
3. Another agency will contact a different person in the company's recruitment department who also agrees to receive the resume;
4. An applicant's resume could even be sent to a hiring company contact who hands that resume off to someone in HR or the appropriate HA;
5. And of course, there is also the possibility that in spite of agreeing to leave things in the hands of the agency recruiters, that applicant may send their resume directly to that company doing the advertising of that vacancy;
5a. That applicant will either be thinking the agencies may have 'missed' seeing the advertised position or they may even, unbelievably, think that sending their resume themselves may 'seal the deal' and add to the chances of their being called in for an interview;
5b. That applicant may also contact each agency, asking them each to send their resume to that same company, hoping that among their multiple referrals, one of them will 'get through' to the appropriate person in that company advertising the vacancy.
Now we have four resumes, of the same person, arriving at the same company.
PV, it is likely you would not know of all these possibilities if you were not in the employment business. As it is, all you did was cut and paste a favorite post by many here who have all said what you said, that agencies want to know where their client has already applied but this does not cover all the other scenarios that can also occur.
1. The HA
may or may not ask in advance, for the name of the applicant, to compare that name with other resumes s/he had already received;
2. The recruiters in HR may or may not ask for the name of the agencies' client to compare to resumes already received.
What you missed, PV, in your rush to judgment, is that once an applicant signs their agreement for [multiple] employment agencies to represent them, they have no control of to which companies those agencies subsequently send their resume.
Most internal recruiters are swamped and rushed and in many cases, may just say, 'fine, send it' and hang up, not realizing they have opened the door to a can of worms.
Furthermore, in many cases, that busy recruiter (with that useless degree and little experience) doesn't care what conflicts may arise since to them, it is merely a matter of tossing duplicate resumes into the round file while they continue to sift incoming resumes. That a gem may have been discarded in their rush to get through a pile of resumes is not their concern.
Another example of staff members being more caught up in their processes than results.
Once that resume is received in multiples,
the damage is done and the conflict is eventually discovered, all to the disadvantage of the applicant.
Or not. In some cases, a savvy HR member will understand the rules of the road and will notify the agencies who sent them a second/third/fourth version of the same resume that their referral was preceded by another agency.
The bottom line is that what you posted, PV, did not address what I said.
Paul...............
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