When negotiating offers, what role does the recruiter play?
Jul 22, 2019
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I don’t know how in-house recruiters work.
Do recruiters try to lowball you so that they get rewarded by the company (because he/she helped in cost saving), but at the same they want you to accept the offer so that they get their commission?
i.e. Are recruiters our enemy?
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So yeah... their job is to hire tons of quality people for cheap.
They low-balled me
They made the offer an exploding one
They didn't even give me time to think till the evening of the last day of the deadline
They were arrogant in their tone as if I was joking when I presented avg numbers from Glassdoor and other sources - they literally said "excuse me, oh sorry, what was the number again? You're kidding right? *Cough*" (FYI the numbers weren't absurdly high.
The presented me with an initial offer that was below my current comp. And I'm not on the top of the band here either)
Worst negotiating experience ever. :(
In-house recruiters only care about quota. They have metrics to hit and most of those are super lax compared to agency recruiters, as they have inflated salaries. Agency recruiters get paid commission contingent on a portion of your onboarded base salary, so it’s in theirs and your best interest to get the highest cash offer possible.
There is a ton of ignorance about the recruiting process, and i assure you you’d be interested in revolutionizing the multibillion dollar industry as it’s ducking terrifyingly broken.
They can be helpful at times but they are there to get the candidate for cheap as possible.