Are you going to recruit from my company and recruit my people out of my company? That’s a justifiable question. I don’t blame you for asking it. In fact, you need to ask it. Not only should you ask it, you’ve got to make sure that the answer is in writing.
Contingency firms are candidate-driven. They’re going to try to place candidates from anywhere they can find them.
Retained search firms, at least ours – we’re client-driven. We have a saying: you never know where professional friendships may lead. We’re not a contingency firm. We’re a retained executive search firm. We don’t need thousands of clients and we’re not candidate-driven. We’re client-driven. We value clients like you and we sure as heck aren’t going to be coming back and poaching in your business, and we put it in writing. We guarantee it.