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I help connect contract management and legal experts with the world's leading and fastest growing construction, renewables and real estate companies, building long-term talent acquisition and retention strategies 🚀

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......

Robert H A Brimacombe

Contracts & Claims Manager at KEO International Consultants

11mo

Interesting tales JM how did they find out the Employer Name to know where to hawk around their favourite candidates? Assert your copyright on your publications and adverts (c) If you have a sole / exclusive recruiter arrangement with your client, you will (should) still get your fees (well, I mean have an entitlement to them which is a different situation) even if some 'ambulance chaser' (being polite) poaches the recruitment work. Some businesses have dubious practices.

Mike Grossbard

Engineering, Manufacturing and Technical Recruitment Expert and Engineer with hands-on experience in those industries. My views are my own

11mo

Sounds like some poor trainee thrown in at the deep end to get candidates on has thought no one would notice if they copied and pasted a presumably, well-written advert. I feel sorry for them.

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Deji Ogunsola

Headhunter | Career Advisor | Business Advisor - Renewable Energy - Saving Planet Earth one candidate at a time. #𝙆𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙄𝙩𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙣𝙆𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙄𝙩𝘾𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙣

11mo

Lazy recruiter - couldn't event change the job description! #Shocking

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