Bigger, badder, not better.
Whenever I need to use a recruitment agency, I nearly always favour working with the smaller boutique variety rather than the large national multi-branch operations.
Most of this discrimination has been formed as the result of working for, and dealing, with large recruitment agencies.
In my experience, the number of capable recruiters per capita in large agencies is much lower than in the boutiques.
Obviously, there will be a small number of exceptions; SThree spring to mind…
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Free email template for inhouse recruiters
Here’s a template you can use when responding to those agency emails that attempt to convince you that they should be your recruitment agency of choice.
If enough of these get sent back, maybe these agencies would think a little more deeply about what it is they’re really trying to do.
If it’s just to continually look for hiring companies in distress purchase mode, then they’ll probably just ignore it. But I’m sure some of them aren’t that bad.
See it as giving something…
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