I’m in the biglaw hiring process through an outside recruiter. It’s so frustrating because he’s having these conversations with the firm and only paraphrasing the gist of them to me. He says he can’t forward the exact emails. Is that BS? Why can’t I see what the firm is telling my recruiter?

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What are you worried about?

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BS. Be wary of recruiters and remember you, and the firm, are the product that they are selling to the other.

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Mine did this and it caused a lot of problems. Basically game of telephone where there were huge misunderstandings between myself and the firm that caused a lot of problems about which group I was in, what partner I’d be working under where I almost quit a month after starting. Turns out the recruiter was working with another candidate and if she could get one of us to agree to split groups, they’d be more likely to hire both candidates. If I’d had any of the final conversations directly with the firm none of that mixup would have happened (and they still would have hired both of us). Most recruiters are working for themselves, not you or the firm.

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What information are you looking for beyond his summary of the conversation? Also, how would you like it if he was forwarding your emails to him to the firms?

That’s good insight thanks A3!

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