Below are the 12 absolute commandments to working with recruiters in your job search:
- Make sure they agree not to release your resume to any opportunity without your permission.
- Make sure they agree not to release your resume to any opportunity without your permission.
- Find out how long the recruiter worked on that “desk”. In other words, in your marketplace specialty.
- Ascertain how many direct placements they had last year, and so far, this year?
- What application do they work with?
- What type of positions do they typically handle?
- Ask what kind of recruiter they are: contingency, retained, or internal.
- Be sure to ask how many candidates the recruiter submits per search?
- What mechanisms has the recruiter put in place to distinguish their candidates from another recruiter’s candidates?
- Is this position that the recruiter is submitting you for a “split”?
- How many other candidates is the Hiring Authority seeing?
- Does the recruiter work with HR, hiring manager, or the VP/C Suite?
