Recruiters don't know their clients in the first meeting
This is an unforgivable "sin" for a recruiter. To go to a meeting with a new client without knowing at least the key elements about their business, you have to be a newbie. It is simply an elementary requirement that you have researched your potential client's business before meeting with him.
Recruiters promise you everything and then don't deliver it immediately
The signs will be there from the beginning. If you notice inefficiencies and broken promises about callbacks or information that doesn't arrive right away, that pattern will repeat itself and only get worse.
Poorly prepared candidates
You have given your job to the agency you chose. Worker profiles or resumes have arrived and, you have a day of interviews or inductions even reserved for what at first glance seem like very good candidates. Your agency should have informed your candidates with as much information as possible about the job and also provide them with preliminary health and safety reports as well as make sure they have the right cards and qualifications for the position.
Your recruitment agency is not listening to your needs
In addition to receiving irrelevant CVs, this is in the same vein. There is nothing more frustrating than having spent a lot of time informing your agency about the type of worker and the job, only to have irrelevant profiles or the wrong type, of person or unskilled worker, appear.
You have multiple points of contact.
If you end up talking to many different people in your agency offices, you can lose a lot in translation and lose your focus. Your agency should name only one point of contact and perhaps an alternate if the principal is absent. This will allow you to develop an understanding and establish a modus operandi.
Recruiters think that a successful placement is the end and "job done
Your new worker is having a good time on induction and is off to a good start. Wait for your next call from them to check that everything is okay or if you have more vacancies, but be quiet! Nothing happens and, you can't even contact your recruiter. If this happens to you and your recruiter doesn't keep in regular contact with you or all you get is more prospecting emails from them, then they don't value your business and you should look elsewhere.
Recruiters are adamant about their fees.
Now a quality
recruitment agency will not have the cheapest price and the adage of "you get what you pay for" is true here. However, once a relationship has been established and perhaps the business has picked up a bit, they should be prepared to negotiate with you and offer you better rates or reach a common ground with you on rates.
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