tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575334444752638591.post3894924345636112989..comments2024-03-17T03:15:14.033-04:00Comments on View From Madison Avenue: The More Recruiters Know, The Better They Can PerformView From Madison Avenuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18133010500698814644noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575334444752638591.post-54774677155610950422015-09-12T16:18:06.046-04:002015-09-12T16:18:06.046-04:00Thanks, Rachel. I totally agree. One of the great ...Thanks, Rachel. I totally agree. One of the great surprises when I started recruiting one of the antipathy between us and many of our clients. It also exists with some candidates. A good friend of mine wants ask me how many hundreds of Christmas cards I got every year? When I told him very few, he couldn't believe that people would take us for granted. But that is the way it is. I appreciate View From Madison Avenuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18133010500698814644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575334444752638591.post-79442551014780250972015-09-12T15:20:50.650-04:002015-09-12T15:20:50.650-04:00Weird! I was totally surprised by your article thi...Weird! I was totally surprised by your article this time. I have only worked with a very few recruiters - 3 in total - and felt it was a privilege to be given the money from headquarters to afford them. The time and frustration that was saved, the high quality of candidates, as well as having an expert with whom to think things over were priceless. I thought everyone felt that way. I still don&#Rachel Gellerhttp://www.liminalresearch.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575334444752638591.post-77273524737420265262015-09-09T12:20:41.881-04:002015-09-09T12:20:41.881-04:00Your analogy about real estate agents is fair. As...Your analogy about real estate agents is fair. As stated above, I work for the clients who pay me but I must do a good job for my candidates. And a good recruiter never recruits candidates they have placed out of the company where they placed them. Many creative recruiters, especially, earned a reputation for doing that; they merely drove up the price of creative talent and in the long run didView From Madison Avenuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18133010500698814644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575334444752638591.post-49288355528343155712015-09-09T11:45:07.868-04:002015-09-09T11:45:07.868-04:00I suspect a large part of the problem is that it&#...I suspect a large part of the problem is that it's never been clear whom the recruiter is really working for. Real estate agents have a similar problem - but they've "solved" it by pretending they're working for the buyers, even though the reality is that they're sellers' agents. <br /><br />Recruiters, on the other hand, have never clarified their relationship with Steve Lancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05376357464243606594noreply@blogger.com