Current Openings

Retained Search back to top

Pros

• Committed relationship - you are buying a service.
• You have professionals guiding you through the process and negotiating on your behalf.

Cons

• Overloaded Search Consultants focused on quantity instead of quality.
• Focus diminishes over time as they have received their fee.
• Significant overhead that you are paying for
• You never really know who is handling your needs.

Contingent Recruiting back to top

Pros

• High Volume of Resumes from multiple sources
• Broader exposure to the universe of candidates.
• Ability to dictate fees.
• You can turn the candidate flow up or down depending on your needs.

Cons

• Misrepresentation of your business is likely.
• Candidates receive varied levels of service and representation and will be evaluating your business based on their experience with the recruiter
• Contingency firms have the incentive to negotiate compensation on behalf of the candidate
• Time and resources wasted qualifying a large volume of resumes
• Best candidates go to the highest bidder
• The resumes that you are receiving are being sent to your competitors too
• You only see those candidates that are on the market
• You must manage disputes between agencies that have submitted the same candidate
• You get what you pay for
• Lack of commitment from agencies.

"Doing It Yourself" back to top

Pros

• You have complete control over the entire process
• Assurance that everyone involved understands the business the company will be well represented.
• Build and maintain your own database of candidates for the future.

Cons

• Limited access to potential candidates
• Tremendous loss of time and resources that could otherwise be focused on building the business.
• Tendency to settle on a candidate rather than focusing on finding the best.
• Distracts from the core business
• Resources that might otherwise be contributing to building the business spend more time qualifying candidates
• Feedback from potential candidates is not necessarily honest or complete