Why do recruiters never tell you which agency they want to talk to you about until they get you on the phone? I don’t want to waste anyone’s time and it would be helpful to know this info from the initial outreach. My experience with this only applies to healthcare, but would imagine it’s the same in consumer as well. Anyone?

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Because they don't want you to go direct.

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Oh right! Sorry!

I will holster my outrage.

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You can still go direct if you don’t agree to them submitting your info

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If you’ve already worked with that agency before, then it doesn’t make sense to have a recruiter submit you when you’re already in the system / network.

You can definitely go direct-to-agency but unless you have a legit contact at the agency itself, there’s a good chance your submission will be ignored since the internal talent manager hired the external recruiter to weed through the talent ahead of time. Therefore the internal manager will most likely open emails the external recruiter sends; rather then unsolicited ones like yours... of course that’s not a definite, but in my experience that has been the case.

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What Consultant1 said.

Independent recruiters get paid if/when they get you hired. If they immediately post, “This is a job at DDB.” Nothing stops you from saying “Oh, I have a friend there, I’ll just have them pass my resume along.” And nothing stops their recruiter competition from chasing down this lead with their own list of candidates.

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