How Dysfunctional Can You Be?
Sometimes I wonder how organizations can function and survive. If you are hiring for important roles, maybe you should put some thought into coordinating the process effectively when using multiple recruiting agencies.
When you have multiple agencies contact you about the same role, at the same company, but with entirely different messages it destroys any trust the candidate has in the process. It is even better when one agency tells you how confidential the search is and won’t even disclose the name of their client without an NDA, yet another will happily divulge the name of the client without an NDA. The cherry on top is when the organization looking to hire should absolutely know how to go about hiring for a role of this caliber without making these basic mistakes.
All of this adds up to making any prospective candidate want to run away from the process as fast as possible. After all, if an organization can’t manage to coordinate the hiring process, how can they possibly be any less dysfunctional internally? Seriously, do better. Otherwise assume you will never find someone other than a person that is too dense to see past the red flags presented during the hiring process. That isn’t a recipe for long-term success.