Agency: We have openings for CDs, Writers and Art Directors.
External Recruiter: OK, I’ll make a random post about it in my LinkedIn feed. That’ll be 10% of their annual salary, please. (Cont.)

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Generalization here, but I've found the best agencies do their own talent recruiting. To the point where an agency using an external recruiter is kind of a red flag.

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That’s probably more accurate. I’d change it to the shoulder shrug emoji but the editing window is over. Good point though.

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Agency: Wait, couldn’t we just do that ourselves?
Ext. Recruiter: No, you need my expertise and database.
Agency: What expertise/database? You’re just posting on LinkedIn.
Ext Recruiter: That’s how I build my database.
Agency: So much for the expertise, then.
Ext. Recruiter: 👻

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Your internal recruiters could probably fill the jobs if they ever responded to emails and developed relationships with talented people instead of just ignoring everyone until they absolutely have an opening they were trying to fill

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ECD, wanna swap databases? I could give you names of great award-winning teams from around the world and all I need in return is a good CD/AD you trust.

Thanks but no hiring need right now, just posting as an observation of current lazy recruiting practices.

An opening for a writer you say? 👀

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