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- From: caldwell@cs.cornell.edu (Jim Caldwell)
- Subject: Re: Called for interview by company & agency - Pl. HELP !
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- Working with a headhunter is a bit tricky. Some companies will not hire from
- headhunters (except perhaps under special circumstances) and if your name is
- submitted by a headhunter they are obliged to pay the fees. This was the case at
- GE corporate R&D center in Schenectady N.Y. when I was there. Many companies
- have their own personel departments and can not justify paying their own staff
- and headhunter fees as well. I recommend dumping any headhunter that is
- submitting your resume to companies without telling you about it beforehand.
- Also, you must watch out since your best interests may not coincide with the best
- interests of the headhunter. He may have an arrangement with company A to get $x
- dollars per hired head and may have an agreement with company B for something
- less than $x dollars. If your ideal job is with company B but company A has an
- opening guess which job he will tell you about.
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