The standard norm in the Hospitality industry but far from perfect or good for all parties involved.  Why Contingency Recruitment is hurting your business:

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• Commitment - The vacancy is open to as many recruitment firms as the client can handle.  This approach creates a multitude of problems.

  • For the client, because the practice is, first come first "owe", recruiters rush the process, sometimes not even interviewing the candidate (yes, I find this all the time). 

  • For the recruiter, roles can become tedious because there is no commitment from the client, so easier assignments become a much more attractive path towards hitting commission and promotion targets, and most likely the role will be left gathering dust and going without the attention it deserves. 

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• Collaboration - Collaboration is not easy when you have more than one recruitment firm working with you.  There is no time to work together as a team, reaching for the same common goal. 

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• Value - How can you possibly add value or reputation by commissioning more than one recruitment firm when they are tasked to race through the candidates to get there first. 

  • Your company brand plays a very important role in the recruitment sphere, a tool to build your brand, sadly contingency recruitment has no benefit to your brand.

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Takeaway: working with more than one agency, ultimately means less collaboration, poor value and a bigger workload for the client.

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CRAWFORD & CARRUTHERS do not subscribe to contingency recruitment ...

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