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Old 03-19-2014, 12:58 PM   #14
GP_Matt
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Originally Posted by squiggs96 View Post
What? This makes little to no sense.

I have used recruiters to help me hire employees and I have used recruiters to help me get a job. When you are looking to be hired, they work in three main ways. Either they have a job already, and they contact you asking if you are interested in it. They have a job and you apply for it through them or you go to a recruiter and say you are looking for a certain type of job. In the last version, they start calling/emailing businesses asking if they'd like to hire a person with your qualifications. Recruiters are always out to companies asking if they need to hire anyone. The jackpot for them is when they hire someone away from Company A to Company B. Then they call up Company A and ask if they can provide candidates for the now vacant position.
My impression was that they only want to know people who have a job already. Perhaps that is cynical of me, but in your third version who pays them if they find you a job they weren't already hired to fill.

If you give them a resume and they start shopping you around are they calling prospective employers and saying I have a great candidate for you. Give me $25k and I will tell you his name and contact info?

I know they will keep your name on file in case something comes up but I was thinking about someone who is unemployed and looking to work right away.
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