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.
• Headhunter.

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.

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.

Headhunter.

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.