John Murphy’s Post

We recently completed a retained search for a Contracts Specialist with a leading European construction group and successfully placed a great candidate into the role 🚀 And it wasn't an easy profile to recruit whatsoever. Extremely specific and not many people in the market with such experience. But halfway through the search, we noticed another headhunter had, by some strong coincidence (and quite brazenly) posted the same job, with the same job description, even written exactly the same as ours...... Strange 😵 Given that the role was exclusive and having worked with the client for over 8 years we were able to talk through this and work out what was going on 💡 It's one thing trying to be speculative, but it's another when you're quite blatantly copying and pasting another company's job description when they or the customer have not in any way given permission to do this. It makes recruiters look unprofessional and it also impacts clients from an employer branding perspective when retained searches then appear like that on the open market..... I'm all for being opportunistic but this is not the kind of game I'm in ❌ Maybe it's worth a company winning its own work rather than trying to use the backdoor and create an unnecessarily messy situation......