Why do external recruiters want to know which company you ended up at when it was found thru your own efforts?

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They want to know who you picked over their options and if it makes sense they won’t ask follow up questions. I’m not a recruiter but I always want to know where my seniors are going. I had someone deciding between an obscure company and Disney once and I wanted more info. Ended up advising her against Disney for what she was looking for. All this to say I am their senior manager and I have no skin in the game at all but I want to know and a lot of them come to me when making decisions on where to go next and I like to hear their reasons and if they are happy which helps me advise the people that come to me in the future. I can almost always tell now when someone is going to regret it and come back (I did this as a new manager). I remind these people that if they feel like they made a mistake reach out and the less time they have been gone the easier it is to come back. I think I’m 100% on those people actually coming back.

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Because they want to acquire them as a customer.

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This. Yes, sure some recruiters seem to care about customers and are just curious about where you end up. That said, it's likely as soon as they hang up the phone with you, they'll be calling the company to see if they can get future business.

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Won’t they know when you update your LinkedIn anyway?

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True, I haven’t updated it yet tho

They want to ensure they get commission in case in was a connection they feel they made

They may also want to make sure your employer did not steal their candidate, if they are recruiting for that employer and by chance forwarded your resume as well.

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