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While many candidates are used to and/or comfortable dealing with a recruiter, just as many are not. In general, working with a recruiter is no different from working with an HR person at a target company, except we represent many companies, across multiple industries.
In the end, we do represent our client first. They are the ones who pay us to find talent for them. However, that doesn't mean you, the candidate, are not a huge part of the equation. It does mean, however, we will talk with many candidates for each opening we have to fill, and not everyone we talk to will be right. It also means we will make mistakes, and we invite you to tell us why you think you are right for a position, if we have just told you we don't think you are!
Working with a recruiter involves building a trusting relationship, which usually means working with more than a few recruiters will quickly become sticky for you. We prefer our candidates work with no more than 2 or 3 recruiters on their search, though in the end, the final decision is yours.
When your recruiter asks you to talk about where else you have applied, be prepared to share openly. This isn't the time to be coy, or 'careful'. Candidates who are unwilling to talk openly with us, are candidates we are unable to help. We won't hold anything back from you, please extend to us the same courtesy.
If you don't have them, start working on them. Most employers today will not hire a candidate they can't reference check, and this is true regardless of whether this is a full time opening, or a contract position.
TxMQ, and most companies, conduct thorough background evaluations of all of our candidates. These comply with all applicable federal, state, (and in Canada, provincial) laws. If there is ANYTHING in your past that we are likely to come across, please let us know. Anything!
Planning a trip? Vacation? Extended absence from email/cell coverage? Great! Let us know, so we can make a note of when you'll be out of contact. Without making us aware of an extended absence, we just might assume you have lost interest and we will move on to the next candidate.
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