Recently I got invited to an interview with a decent growing company. I work in Executive Search and I am thinking of switching to in-house recruiting. During the conversation the recruiter made some weird assumptions about my current job. The interview took longer than expected and I feel like I have not delivered well. Was I wrong to expect in-house recruiter to understand the differences and similarities between in-house-recruiting, professional search and retained executive search?

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You are not wrong necessarily, but there are plenty of cases when people who haven’t experienced both, don’t know all the particulars of each.

Just yesterday I was chatting with a close friend who’s been in recruiting for almost 2 decades and knows the difference between agency recruiting and in-house recruiting. She’s now in HR at a global company and she was saying how they hired a few folks for their recruiting function with experience with agency recruiting, but not in-house recruiting, and how it has caused a lot of confusion in the beginning.

Did you have an opportunity to address the assumptions? Can you still address them? “Educating” someone who doesn’t seem to have full understanding always feels arrogant, but there are ways to do it without making the other person feel bad... otherwise you might continue to feel that you’re not delivering well 🙁

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