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Monday, January 23, 2012

Working with Recruiters: Signing a non-compete or exclusive agreement?

January 5th, 2012

I found an interesting post on RecruitingBlogs by Paul Gumbinner, a recruiter. I love to hear what recruiters think about the job search process and job seekers. Their perspective can really help us refine our message and usually self-made systems.

Paul’s post is titled A New One On Me, and talks about his experience with a shady competitor that was doing something that was likely unethical.  Apparently, it is abundant in the recruiter space. It’s an interesting story – read it here.

What really got me, though, was the comment from Sandra McCartt – Sandra comments a lot on these posts and always has really good, fair input.  Check out this snippet from her comment:

I tell candidates that when any recruiter asks them to sign any kind of contract or any agreement other than a permission to check references they should limit it to that specific job if they are dumb enough to sign anything at all.

and later….

I agree he was foolish to sign it.

So what do you sign, with a recruiter?  I’d love to get Nick Corcodilos to weigh in on this one… but here is my take-away for today: Don’t Sign Anything!!

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