Who Recruiters Are

Who Recruiters Are (hereinafter, the Lectio) is the second lesson part of the Recruiters' Essentials lesson that introduces its participants to employment and related topics.

WorldOpp Pipeline

This lesson belongs to the Introduction to Recruitment session of the CNM Cyber Orientation. The Orientation is the second stage of the WorldOpp Pipeline.

Content

The predecessor lectio is Selection Phases.

Key terms

Recruitment service. Any service related to recruitment.

• Recruiter. A legal entity whose business is to enlist or enroll people as employees, students, or as members of an organization.
• Retained recruiter. A recruiter who is paid for the time spent while recruiting regardless of the fact whether qualified sources are identified, hired, or not.
• Contingency recruiter. A recruiter who is paid only when qualified sources are identified and hired.
• Hiring manager. A representative of the employer responsible for hiring one or more employees to fill open positions. That manager may work for that employer as an employee, be hired as an independent contractor, or be an employee of another recruiter.

Script

A recruiter is any legal entity whose business is to enlist or enroll people as employees, students, or as members of an organization. Recruiters provide their employers or other customers with recruitment services.

Usually, several types of recruiters are working on a filling in one employment vacancy.

Retained recruiters are paid for the time spent while recruiting regardless of the fact whether qualified sources are identified, hired, or not. The retained recruiters can be [[employee]s of the employing organization or third-party recruiters working on a contract with a retainer provision.

Contingency recruiters are paid only when qualified sources are identified and hired. They must be third-party recruiters.

By the definition, headhunters belong to contingency recruiters, but they don't wait until someone qualified apply for a job opening. Headhunters reach out to those qualified workers who are not necessarily on the job market. Their job is to find people qualified for and willing to take an employment vacancy. They often try to persuade a qualified worker to leave their job by offering that worker another job with more pay and a higher position.

Their style tends to be more aggressive; it can remind hunting. That is why they are called headhunters. Because of their higher effort, their cost is high. Usually, headhunters are hired to fill in very important, impossible to fill in otherwise positions.

Finally, hiring manager are full-time recruiters, but they make contingent selection decisions. The hiring manager is a representative of the employer responsible for hiring one or more employees to fill open positions. That manager may work for that employer as an employee, be hired as an independent contractor, or be an employee of a third-party recruiter.

Third-Party Recruiters is the successor lectio.

Quiz

Every statement below is split into one true and one false question in the actual exam.

1. Recruitment service is (not) any service related to recruitment.
2. Employment agency is (not) any entity that matches employers and employment candidates.
3. Staffing firm is (not) any entity that provides employers with their staffers.
4. (Not) every recruiter is an employee of the employer who is hiring.
5. (Not) every recruiter is paid for the candidates that he or she sourced, screened, and selected.
6. Retained recruiter is (not) paid for the time spent while recruiting.
7. Retained recruiter is (not) paid only when qualified sources are identified and hired.
8. Contingency recruiter is (not) paid for the time spent while recruiting.
9. Contingency recruiter is (not) paid only when qualified sources are identified and hired.