There is room and indeed a need in the market for both contingency and search recruitment firms. The fact is that either done badly will leave a sour taste in everyone’s mouth and do damage to the reputation of the industry. Charles Crichton-Stuart’s article in last week’s issue of Legal Week (14 June) on the benefits of search recruitment raised several important issues that cry out for a response.
Contingency recruitment produces a large number of unsolicited and untargeted submissions for vacancies on the basis of merely reformatted CVs
