0ur fee is hardly low. At 9.5% we think what we earn is a win-win for both sides. Granted, other contingency recruiters charge 4 times as much for doing the same thing. But we don't feel like that's a reason to artificially inflate our prices beyond what we feel contingency recruiting services are truly worth.

Actually, we are recruiting at 9% because .5% goes to our client's charity of choice.

We recruit for that fee because finding candidates on job boards is not real recruiting. It's targeted research which is significantly less valuable than true recruiting. By limiting our focus exclusively to job boards and active candidates, we are only performing one aspect of recruiting while there are many. That is contacting job seekers and selling them on your opportunity. This activity is not very time intensive. We do this work at 9.5% because that's what we think it's worth. Obviously, true recruiting is worth substantially more!

It covers all standard "contingency" recruiting activities. We search the job boards. We contact the most promising candidates. We sell them on your opportunity. We lightly screen them. We send you the best resumes. We coordinate scheduling interviews. We help negotiate salary. And you get a 60 day replacement guarantee.

It depends on the difficulty level of your search compared to the other searches we have going on at the same time. Like any contingency recruiter, we give top priority to the positions we think we have the best chances of quickly filling. If you need a guaranteed high level of effort, you should consider a retained search.

You will be receiving resumes from us. There can be lulls in activity depending on a number of factors. You are always welcome to call your recruiter to inquire about the status of your search.

Our recruiters are as qualified as any other contingency search agency's recruiters.

No. However, we think the low fee is a good enough incentive to not engage other recruiters. The reason being that if another recruiter happens to send you the same job board candidate before we do, you will pay their fee (e.g. 20%-30%) instead of our fee of 5.8% for the very same candidate. Having said that, you are free to engage as many contingency recruiters as you wish.

Yes and No. This site is ultimately designed to promote our Retained Search and Performance Payouts search services. It is also intended to generate awareness about the disadvantages of contingency recruiting. Having said that, if you respect our terns we will perform a contingency search for you at 5.8%.

Yes. If you respect our terms, we will conduct a contingency search for you at 5.8%

We believe there is excellent value in offering easy-to-find job board candidate recruiting services at 5.8% when you consider the other two options. You can work the job boards yourself or pay a contingency recruiter to do it for you. Any contingency recruiter will cost you between 15% and 33% which is obviously much higher than our 5.8%. Working the job boards yourself puts a strain on you business resources that is better utilized by focusing on your core business.

Absolutely nothing. We know there are many excellent candidates who post their resumes on job boards. Our problem is not with job board candidates, its with contingency recruiters who charge ridiculous fees to place them. High fees are intended to be paid for performing deep candidate research and finding passive candidates. Charging high fees for easy to find candidates that are actively looking and highly visible hurts job seekers and hiring companies.

Please see Contingency Search Disadvantages.