NO AGENCIES or Recruiters
Sim??n Wilkins
Partnering with the best Housebuilding businesses, I stop the wrong people from joining. Over 7000 meetings in 22 years of headhunting. I won't pretend to be your best friend. I'm paid to search. I don't want CVs.
No Agencies or Recruiters.
First things first. I dislike recruiters, generally.
Why? Because as a former Housebuilding Director with the responsibilities of managing and appointing many staff, my first-hand experience of "agencies" or "recruiters" was poor.
My view hasn't changed in 20 years of Headhunting, except to confirm what I already knew and having since learnt about other less than desirable practices of diverting candidates during negotiations.
But you're a recruiter.
No. I search and select candidates for clients. My model is completely different from the vast majority of recruiters including the partnership nature and payment profile.
Recruiters are a pain in the backside for many companies. On one hand, they are banging on the door for every possible vacancy to throw CVs at; on the other, they are trying to pull people out of the same business for another company that wishes to recruit someone.
I didn't like it then and I don't like it now. It's disingenuous.
When a company says, NO AGENCIES, what they usually mean is that they don't want to be inundated with CVs of candidates that often don't even realise that their CV is being sent all over the globe, in the hope of a fee. Wording within emails, such as "open this and you are bound by our terms", is just ridiculous.
Companies either have a preferred supplier and don't want to confuse the issue, or they simply don't want to have to deal with amateurs or pay fees.
The downside of an Ad containing NO AGENCIES is that the company becomes a target for recruiters because if they can't make money by sending people to the company, they will do their best to remove their staff for companies that will pay them.
When I see Ads with NO AGENCIES, I usually attach the image shown above to help the exposure of the Ad for the company trying to recruit. They might be clients; they might not be clients. Either way, it helps with traction and relevant exposure to a network of housebuilding people whom I've spent over 20 years meeting and interacting with. It doesn't hurt helping people.