Manage your Job Search with Multiple Recruiters

Sometimes our contingency plans might end up like a needle pointing backwards toward us. Options are always good to keep unless and until it doesn’t create confusion that may wreck our ultimate intention. Job search turns out to be tricky when you pull in multiple recruiters into the process. There are number of complications involved in searching jobs through different set of staffing agencies.

Take a glance through the following precautions that are really important to keep in mind when you deal with multiple recruiters,

• The first thing that you should be clear with is that the recruiters systems will send your name to the trash and it will be blacklisted, in case if it’s found that, you’ve applied for the same job twice.


• Rather than applying directly through the company’s website, it is highly recommended to apply through a recruiting agency as they would have close contact with the top hiring managers. However make sure to contact the recruiter to know if it’s OK to apply for the post again if you’ve already applied for it.


• You can keep a detailed list of the name of the agency, contact information of the recruiter and a gist of the job description for the purpose to check with your current list of companies that you wish to apply for. Similarities can be predicted and therefore avoided through this process


• It’s better to be safe than late. Let the recruiter know that you’re working with multiple recruiters in a polite manner and request them to intimate you if the similar job position comes. This may create a good will and also help to build a smooth relationship between you and the recruiters


• Stretch your honesty to the maximum limit you can. When you get the offer for the same role for the second time from another recruiter, don’t hesitate to share that with the recruiter


• Signing a ‘Right to Represent agreement’ will help you to safe guard your profile incase if some poor recruiters submit your profile to another concern without your permission


• If multiple recruiters contact you with the same job description, choose the one that is the best. The factors such as experience of the organization, client relationship and the details of the job description that they have shared with you can be taken into consideration for this purpose

You can read the above points multiple times lest to handle the multiple recruiters effectively.