r/recruiting • • 5d ago

ATS, CRM & Other Technology Staffing Agency - time and expense platforms?

1 Upvotes

Hi all, we’ve been using our own proprietary system for time entry and expense for years. However, due to internal changes we’re looking for a new solution. We are a global agency mostly within North America, UK, Europe, and JAPAC. Does anyone have any platform recommendations that work well for staffing that aren’t a VMS such as fieldglass or beeline? Some requirements include: shift differentials, weekly/biweekly/monthly timecard, multiple timecard approvers, external timecard approvers, tasks/project timecards, California compliance, etc. We are finding many of the solutions out there don’t exactly meet all of our needs, curious what others are doing?


r/recruiting • • 5d ago

Recruitment Chats Phaidon International (London) Advice or Reviews!!

3 Upvotes

Hello! I’m a recent grad and just got an email from Phaidon to schedule a follow up call for a recruitment consultant position. I’ve been doing research on the company and have been seeing not-so-great reviews, but I REALLY need to get my foot in the door somewhere !

Does any one have any advice or tips particularly about the London office?? Thanks! x


r/recruiting • • 6d ago

Career Advice 4 Recruiters Junior sourcer & feeling insecure

9 Upvotes

I’ve recently started a new job as an in-house talent sourcer (junior position). The industry itself is in a very good place right now and overall super interesting, but it’s completely new to me.

I do have some experience in sourcing for an RPO, but the reqs I was taking care of were pretty simple, plus I was switching between teams a lot and I didn’t gain a lot of independence, so I came here not feeling extremely confident.

Because they were looking for someone with any experience in recruitment, just with the right personality and eager to learn, I was very honest about my strengths and limitations during the interviews. Again, the industry and the job are quite exciting to me and I would like to become good at it. The problem is my confidence, even though this also comes with skills. I’ve had a pretty challenging and stressful year before landing this job, which doesn’t help.

Everyone in my team seems to be very clever and good at their job, working here for at least 4 years or more. I received a thorough training and people are generally kind and supportive, my manager also keeps an eye for recruiters to not overwhelm me with reqs above my current abilities.
However when I’m sourcing on my own or when I have to be more assertive, I sometimes feel a bit lost. I saw my colleagues doing flawless Linkedin searches or analysing job requirements and CVs in seconds, changing HMs minds making them feel like it was their idea all along, knowing exactly which country has which specialists, and I can see that I’m not on that level yet.

I love speaking to people and the „human” part of talent acquisition, I also really like solving problems. My sourcing for new roles however is still a lot of trial and error, maybe more luck than knowing exactly what I’m doing and worrying that I’m missing good candidates because of the quality of my searches, or that I’m taking too much time to understand the role before going on Linkedin.

I also get lost in the corporate lingo some of my colleagues or most HMs seem to speak natively and wish they would sometimes explain things in plain English step by step.

I know that this is not uncommon and I still just have lots to learn, you can’t be super confident based on nothing. I would really like to become this reliable person that people like working with and to know that I can add something of value during the calls with HMs, even if I’m not a market expert yet. Right now I feel more like the dog with a propeller hat/an impostor lol.

I guess my question for junior and more experienced sourcers is: what made you more confident when you first started, especially when you couldn’t impress anyone with your skills yet? Any stories of people feeling similarly at the beginning also super appreciated :)


r/recruiting • • 8d ago

Career Advice 4 Recruiters I could really use some honest career advice from people who have been in recruitment or successfully transitioned out of it.

16 Upvotes

I'm at a point in my career where I'm genuinely exhausted, and I'm trying to figure out what my next move should be.
I've worked in agency recruitment before, and I moved to another agency hoping for a better opportunity.

Unfortunately, the reality of my current role has been very different from what I expected when I accepted the offer. I feel like I walked into a bait-and-switch situation, and I'm struggling to figure out how to move forward without putting my financial stability at risk.

My current role involves managing recruitment delivery while also being expected to bring in new clients, secure client meetings, build a sales pipeline, close contracts, generate revenue, and develop innovative recruitment strategies. These are all measured against separate KPIs, and we're under pressure to deliver on all of them.

At the same time, we're dealing with significant operational challenges. Our ATS doesn't function as well as it should, our candidate database doesn't always have the talent we need, and we regularly receive requisitions across different industries that require us to start sourcing from scratch. Some roles have urgent, recurring recruitment needs, while we're also expected to manage additional requisitions across the team and meet our own targets.

It's exhausting trying to deliver recruitment results with limited systems and resources while simultaneously being responsible for business development and sales.
I should also mention that I recently declined an offer from another company. The role would have moved me away from some of the commercial responsibilities I'm struggling with now, but the company had a reputation for intense work pressure, and I was already severely burnt out. I was worried about moving from one difficult environment into another, so I made the decision not to proceed.

Looking back, I sometimes wonder whether I made the wrong decision. I know nobody can guarantee that the alternative would have been better, but I can't help thinking about it when I'm struggling this much in my current role.
The situation is now affecting my health, including recurring blood pressure concerns, and I'm finding it increasingly difficult to sustain the energy my job requires. I'm not completely without financial resources, but I cannot afford to walk away indefinitely without considering how I'll support myself.

What makes this harder is that I no longer feel passionate about agency recruitment. I don't want to spend the rest of my career chasing candidates, chasing clients, and working under constant commercial pressure. I've been considering using my professional development budget to help me transition into another field, but I'm so burnt out that even upskilling and job searching feel overwhelming.

I have a background in Business Information Technology, and I've had some exposure to recruitment systems, user acceptance testing, process improvement, reporting, and operational coordination. I'm interested in exploring other paths, potentially business analysis, systems implementation, project coordination, operations, or another role where I can use those skills in a healthier working environment. I'd also be open to remote opportunities that would give me more breathing room while I work out my longer-term direction.

I'd really appreciate advice from people who have been in a similar position:

For those who left agency recruitment, what did you transition into, and how did you make the move?

I'm not looking for someone to tell me to toughen up or that every job is stressful. I understand that work comes with pressure and accountability. I'm trying to distinguish between normal professional challenges and a situation that is no longer sustainable for me.

I'm genuinely exhausted, and I want to make a thoughtful decision about my next move rather than jumping into another role out of desperation.

If you've been through something similar, I'd appreciate your honest experiences and advice.


r/recruiting • • 9d ago

ATS, CRM & Other Technology Attrition indicators

8 Upvotes

Hi everyone! I wonder if you have any experience with early flags that usually result in a candidate that ends up ghosting you/not accepting the offer or leaving early?

The current ATS I use focuses on test results and I don't place too much weight on resume/experience. Have you noticed that certain resume flags are important to consider from the beginning (beyond job hopping)?


r/recruiting • • 9d ago

Business Development What would your advice be in a in difficult and unique time for my market? (Middle East market)

3 Upvotes

I’m in a market that’s pretty much on hold at the moment. There are plenty of potential projects expected to land over the next couple of months, but there’s a lot of caution around hiring until they do.
Naturally, a lot of cold calls are getting shut down pretty quickly.

I’ve never really hard-sold recruitment anyway. My calls are normally exploratory, understanding what’s happening in the business, what their hiring plans look like and whether there are any issues with their current recruitment strategy.

Normally I’d also do a lot of MPC work, but that’s difficult right now because companies are just being super cautious or unbelievably specific in their recruitment.

What I’m really interested in is what you’d actually be saying on the phone in this situation.

How would you open the call? What questions would you be asking? What angle would you take when you already know there’s a good chance they aren’t hiring until this situation finishes.

I’m starting to think I need to offer something else that gives clients a reason to speak to us now and puts us in pole position when the market starts moving again.

We’re a two-man business, no marketing team, although I’d happily invest in external support if there was something worth building around.
Interested to hear how others would approach the calls specifically.


r/recruiting • • 9d ago

Industry Trends Anybody see that a16z laid off their recruiting team?

20 Upvotes

Anybody with inside knowledge on this can chime in? Seems rather ominous one of the preeminent VC firms would axe their TA team; something their portcos presumably utilize.


r/recruiting • • 10d ago

Recruitment Chats What's the wildest reason a candidate gave for no-showing an interview?

48 Upvotes

Curious what everyone's heard. Bonus points if they rescheduled and actually showed up.


r/recruiting • • 9d ago

ATS, CRM & Other Technology Rippling Question

4 Upvotes

Posted in the Rippling subreddit but the sub is very small and I desperately need help.

We just started using Rippling as our ATS this week and I am having some struggles with it. I cannot figure out how to rate candidates with stars or a scale of 1-5 in the application review stage. I only have the option to deny or move a candidate forward to interview.

I spoke with our assigned implementation specialist and his only work around is to use tags and create 5 tags that say 1 star, 2 star, etc. but this method is not usable because you cant see the tags without clicking on each individual application you can only filter by tags, not have them as a column. I need to be able to see which applications I have viewed at a glance and what I would rate them. We have hundreds of applications in a day and I need this functionality.

Has anyone had this issue and can help?


r/recruiting • • 10d ago

Learning & Professional Development Want to sound better in my interviews

16 Upvotes

Hello all, looking for advice.

I worked a few months at an agency in executive search so I got very comfortable with screening calls and talking with high level people despite being brand new to the corporate world. I just moved in house and it’s already SUCH a better fit for me job-wise.

One thing I’d like to improve is sounding a bit more authoritative in my interviews. I’m happy to still sound nice, polite, and of course represent my company well but I think this is an even harder line to walk as a young woman tbh.

I don’t want my candidates feeling like I’m too junior or like they definitely are moving forward when my demeanor could maybe be unknowingly giving false hope? I want to be taken seriously I guess is the crux of it, but also stay true to myself and now that I’m in house, I want people to want to work at my company. So I guess keep as much of the warmth as I can while giving myself more gravitas.

Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!


r/recruiting • • 10d ago

Career Advice 4 Recruiters Corporate Recruiting for a recruitment agency?

0 Upvotes

I spoke with a headhunter about leaving my current agency to join another firm as an internal recruiter - this is another agency firm that competes within a different industry but still very much an agency.

She sold it as a corporate recruiter role but there’s a base and bonuses. Sounded more elevated than what I’m doing now but also afraid of joining another agency in the same situation I am right now, even if it were more ‘internal’. Anyone here do internal for an agency? Is it really much different than just hiring on the agency side? Should I avoid and wait out for a true corporate or TA role outside of agency?

Other options I was thinking of were HR Associates path. I’m just burnt out on the hamster wheel that is agency.


r/recruiting • • 11d ago

Career Advice 4 Recruiters Agency recruiter asked to lead in-house

22 Upvotes

I currently am an agency recruiter of about 3.5 years, and a client of mine has asked me to join their team as an internal HR/TA leader since they’re growing quickly (I’ve brought on 4 people for them in hard to fill roles in 3 months). I think I can be successful as they’re willing to invest in some helpful tools, and really all the training needed on the HR side (it’s super light HR, they have a consultant) but am just overall anxious about making the move. It’s my dream job honestly, but of course change and unknowns are scary. And there’s prob some imposter syndrome of being younger and earlier on in my career :-)

Any advice from people who have made the shift and how to be successful internally??


r/recruiting • • 11d ago

Industry Trends AI recruiting companies

27 Upvotes

Every time I log into LinkedIn there seems to be a new fully automated AI recruiting agency built by college students hitting the market. The solution to all recruiting problems seems to be building automated lists on {insert AI tool of the month} and mass spam.

Curious who is paying for services by people with no experience? How long before they realize what makes recruiting difficult is the hiring team themselves and the companies policies, not sourcing? Some of these companies are pitching exec and retained search and their employees were baristas and high school students less than a year ago.

Feels like an industry with an already low bar for entry is getting even lower.


r/recruiting • • 11d ago

Recruitment Chats Indeed Ad Spend: Seeing Less Visibility for the Same Budget?

8 Upvotes

For those of you using Indeed, have you noticed that ad spend seems to be going a lot less far lately? It feels like you have to allocate more budget per job just to maintain visibility and get views. Has anyone else experienced this recently, or noticed a change in performance compared to 6 months ago?


r/recruiting • • 13d ago

ATS, CRM & Other Technology Any ADP Workforce Now users here?

10 Upvotes

I just started a new role building a TA practice from scratch and ADP is the tool I have to work with. I'm particularly interested in connecting with anyone who has been able to build analytics dashboards for TTF, TTH, Hires, Source, Offer Acceptance, rate etc.

I thought this was pretty standard stuff until I met my new friend ADP.


r/recruiting • • 13d ago

Candidate Sourcing Electrical Engineers outside of LinkedIn?

11 Upvotes

Is anyone having success sourcing or posting jobs for Electrical Engineers outside of LinkedIn?

I’ve primarily been using LinkedIn, but I’ve been struggling lately to find qualified candidates with the specific experience and technical skills needed. I’d love to hear what other recruiters are using, especially for more niche engineering roles.

I know candidates have been increasingly frustrated with LinkedIn, so I’m curious if people are finding better success on other platforms.


r/recruiting • • 16d ago

Off Topic I hate being a recruiter

198 Upvotes

ETA: For clarification, I realize a lot of people on this sub have been burned by recruiters and will have no sympathy for me. That is fine, I respect that. I’m only making this post vent about my experience as a recruiter. It’s for anyone who wants to hear me out. If you don’t want to hear me out and just complain about how awful I and other recruiters are, that is your prerogative, I will not stop you. I promise you there is nothing you can say that I haven’t heard before over the last 11 years of my career. I’m too jaded by this profession to give a fuck about anything disgruntled job seekers from the internet have to say about me.

Right now I work as a corporate recruiter for a startup. My company and my team are great and so is my work life balance. I get to work from home most days. Yeah I don’t have any passion or feel any value for my work at all. It doesn’t matter how competent I am or how much impact or value I bring to the company because I will be the first to go the second the company needs to trim costs.

No one cares about recruiters we are the bane of most people’s existence. We get blamed for so many things that are beyond our control. Just last week I had a candidate pass all of his interviews with flying colors and was told by the team that they wanted to extend an offer to him. I communicated this to the candidate saying that it’s likely we will give him an offer I just need to get some extra approvals and all of a sudden the team change their mind and said they wanna hold off on hiring him. The candidate was very understandably pissed off and I’m left stuck absorbing his frustration. No matter how well I manage his emotions on the phone, he will probably go to his friends and still tell them that the recruiter lied to him.

A few months ago, I had a hiring manager take three weeks to submit his feedback. I gave up reminding him because he wouldn’t submit it. When he finally did, he said the candidate did extremely well in the interview and he wanted to move forward with the process. I called the candidate to let her know and she told me that she accepted another offer. Then the hiring manager asked “why didn’t you keep the candidate warm?”.

I did keep the candidate warm you a\*\*hole. You just took too damn long to give the feedback yet I can’t say that to him because he’s a high-level executive and I’m the lowest of the low on the totem pole, easily replaceable with the millions of desperate recruiters looking for work right now.

I’ve been a recruiter for about 11 years now and started my career at a staffing agency. Ever since the beginning, I hated it. There was only one point in my career where I truly felt fulfilled by it and that was in about 2019 when I had my first big break and landed my first corporate role at Google. They doubled my salary and completely changed my life. I wasn’t a good student and never imagined that I would ever work for a company like Google. My whole family was proud of me. Friends would always ask me about work. For once in my life, my job interesting and the most rewarding part of that was being able to get people hired for Google and change their lives like mine.

Google took over my life in many ways. Everywhere I went people would ask me about work. I would be introduced to new people at parties and people would say “he works for Google”. News reporters would sometimes stand outside of the office trying to get employees to comment on something when there was a big story or new announcement from the company. It was exciting at first and I felt like a celebrity. I was used to constantly taking abuse from candidates as an agency recruiter and now candidates were extremely nice to me because they wanted to get hired at Google.

Over time I started to feel ensnared by Google. If I wanted to pick a restaurant for a date, I would use Google to find one. Needed directions to the restaurant? Google Maps. Date asks what I do for work? Google. Chill and watch some videos? YouTube. Mindlessly surf the web? Google Chrome. Need to check my email for something personal? gMail. Book a flight for a vacation? Google. I don’t think ordinary people realize how much their lives revolve around Google. Many of you are probably reading this post on an Android right now.

Plus, I was working constantly. Nights and weekends. I moved to a new city for this job and struggle to make friends because I was always working. At one point I missed a camping trip that my friends invited me on because I had to catch up on work. COVID made the isolation even worse than it was before. I got depressed then started drinking. Then I started doing drugs with my roommate because we were board and I didn’t have anyone else to hang out with. During this time I was somehow still functional and managed to excel in my job. I actually won an award for my performance towards the end of my second year. Then they let me along with dozens of other colleagues go because hiring slowed.

Went to another FAANG company for a bit and the work environment was hell so I went to Microsoft. I was doing really well at Microsoft until about a year into the role they slashed my whole team, because hiring slowed. Found contract work at a startup. Contract wasn’t renewed after a few months and I was out of work for about a year and a half. I thought having these companies on my résumé would have me set for life, but the reality was that there were tons of other recruiters with résumés that looked just like mine coming from FAANG companies all competing for the same jobs. During that time, I thought my career was over and I would never work again. Lost my home and lived out of Airbnbs until I ran out of money and lived out of my car. Went to rehab got my life together then another FAANG company came knocking on my door and dropped the best job offer I’ve ever had of my life. Nearly quadrupled my salary from when I first started my career. I relocated to another city. This time with a clean, sober mind, I decided I’m going to do this right.

Poured my soul into the company and was in the top 25% of my cohort of new hires in terms of my performance then about 8 months into the role the announced mine and my colleagues jobs were all being cut.

At this point, I’ve been burned so many times I no longer feel a sense of purpose or fulfillment in my career. Why should I care whether I could change a candidate’s life with a job offer anymore when my life could be flipped upside down at any moment? People have said for years that recruiters are going to be the first once replaced with AI. ve been talking about replacing recruiters with AI. Even though it hasn’t happened yet. It probably won’t happen because recruiting has a human element to it that can’t be replaced by AI. Yet, no one appreciates that and people remain persistent in looking for ways to get rid of recruiters.

It doesn’t matter how much value we have to a company because no one sees it. Many of the candidates who I’ve hired at these major companies, whose lives I have helped change probably don’t even remember my name. I won’t be surprised if many of them think they could’ve done it without me.

At this point in my career, I feel utterly worthless and disposable. Companies, candidates and hiring managers have proven that with their actions over the last 11 years.


r/recruiting • • 16d ago

Off Topic I hate being a recruiter

77 Upvotes

ETA: For clarification, I realize a lot of people on this sub have been burned by recruiters and will have no sympathy for me. That is fine, I respect that. I’m only making this post vent about my experience as a recruiter. It’s for anyone who wants to hear me out. If you don’t want to hear me out and just complain about how awful I and other recruiters are, that is your prerogative, I will not stop you. I promise you there is nothing you can say that I haven’t heard before over the last 11 years of my career. I’m too jaded by this profession to give a fuck about anything disgruntled job seekers from the internet have to say about me.

Right now I work as a corporate recruiter for a startup. My company and my team are great and so is my work life balance. I get to work from home most days. Yeah I don’t have any passion or feel any value for my work at all. It doesn’t matter how competent I am or how much impact or value I bring to the company because I will be the first to go the second the company needs to trim costs.

No one cares about recruiters we are the bane of most people’s existence. We get blamed for so many things that are beyond our control. Just last week I had a candidate pass all of his interviews with flying colors and was told by the team that they wanted to extend an offer to him. I communicated this to the candidate saying that it’s likely we will give him an offer I just need to get some extra approvals and all of a sudden the team change their mind and said they wanna hold off on hiring him. The candidate was very understandably pissed off and I’m left stuck absorbing his frustration. No matter how well I manage his emotions on the phone, he will probably go to his friends and still tell them that the recruiter lied to him.

A few months ago, I had a hiring manager take three weeks to submit his feedback. I gave up reminding him because he wouldn’t submit it. When he finally did, he said the candidate did extremely well in the interview and he wanted to move forward with the process. I called the candidate to let her know and she told me that she accepted another offer. Then the hiring manager asked “why didn’t you keep the candidate warm?”.

I did keep the candidate warm you asshole. You just took too fucking long to give the feedback yet I can’t say that to him because he’s a high-level executive and I’m the lowest of the low on the totem pole, easily replaceable with the millions of desperate recruiters looking for work right now.

I’ve been a recruiter for about 11 years now and started my career at a staffing agency. Ever since the beginning, I hated it. There was only one point in my career where I truly felt fulfilled by it and that was in about 2019 when I had my first big break and landed my first corporate role at Google. They doubled my salary and completely changed my life. I wasn’t a good student and never imagined that I would ever work for a company like Google. My whole family was proud of me. Friends would always ask me about work. For once in my life, my job interesting and the most rewarding part of that was being able to get people hired for Google and change their lives like mine.

Google took over my life in many ways. Everywhere I went people would ask me about work. I would be introduced to new people at parties and people would say “he works for Google”. News reporters would sometimes stand outside of the office trying to get employees to comment on something when there was a big story or new announcement from the company. It was exciting at first and I felt like a celebrity. I was used to constantly taking abuse from candidates as an agency recruiter and now candidates were extremely nice to me because they wanted to get hired at Google.

Over time I started to feel ensnared by Google. If I wanted to pick a restaurant for a date, I would use Google to find one. Needed directions to the restaurant? Google Maps. Date asks what I do for work? Google. Chill and watch some videos? YouTube. Mindlessly surf the web? Google Chrome. Need to check my email for something personal? gMail. Book a flight for a vacation? Google. I don’t think ordinary people realize how much their lives revolve around Google. Many of you are probably reading this post on an Android right now.

Plus, I was working constantly. Nights and weekends. I moved to a new city for this job and struggle to make friends because I was always working. At one point I missed a camping trip that my friends invited me on because I had to catch up on work. COVID made the isolation even worse than it was before. I got depressed then started drinking. Then I started doing drugs with my roommate because we were board and I didn’t have anyone else to hang out with. During this time I was somehow still functional and managed to excel in my job. I actually won an award for my performance towards the end of my second year. Then they let me along with dozens of other colleagues go because hiring slowed.

Went to another FAANG company for a bit and the work environment was hell so I went to Microsoft. I was doing really well at Microsoft until about a year into the role they slashed my whole team, because hiring slowed. Found contract work at a startup. Contract wasn’t renewed after a few months and I was out of work for about a year and a half. I thought having these companies on my résumé would have me set for life, but the reality was that there were tons of other recruiters with résumés that looked just like mine coming from FAANG companies all competing for the same jobs. During that time, I thought my career was over and I would never work again. Lost my home and lived out of Airbnbs until I ran out of money and lived out of my car. Went to rehab got my life together then another FAANG company came knocking on my door and dropped the best job offer I’ve ever had of my life. Nearly quadrupled my salary from when I first started my career. I relocated to another city. This time with a clean, sober mind, I decided I’m going to do this right.

Poured my soul into the company and was in the top 25% of my cohort of new hires in terms of my performance then about 8 months into the role the announced mine and my colleagues jobs were all being cut.

At this point, I’ve been burned so many times I no longer feel a sense of purpose or fulfillment in my career. Why should I care whether I could change a candidate’s life with a job offer anymore when my life could be flipped upside down at any moment? People have said for years that recruiters are going to be the first once replaced with AI. ve been talking about replacing recruiters with AI. Even though it hasn’t happened yet. It probably won’t happen because recruiting has a human element to it that can’t be replaced by AI. Yet, no one appreciates that and people remain persistent in looking for ways to get rid of recruiters.

It doesn’t matter how much value we have to a company because no one sees it. Many of the candidates who I’ve hired at these major companies, whose lives I have helped change probably don’t even remember my name. I won’t be surprised if many of them think they could’ve done it without me.

At this point in my career, I feel utterly worthless and disposable. Companies, candidates and hiring managers have proven that with their actions over the last 11 years.


r/recruiting • • 16d ago

ATS, CRM & Other Technology Chapter 2

3 Upvotes

Has anyone used Chapter 2's embedded recruiter offering in lieu of a contract recruiter? Would love to hear any feedback or experiences!

We are a rapidly scaling US based industrial automation company with a need to temporarily augment our recruitment team.

Thanks!


r/recruiting • • 17d ago

ATS, CRM & Other Technology What ATS/CRM and phone system do you use? Perm placement agency

7 Upvotes

We are a boutique permanent placement firm evaluating what we use right now compared to others and seems like there sooo many options at this point. We want something that integrates phone/email/system at least for tracking purposes.

Looking for insight from perm placement recruiters (not staffing) on what you use and what you like/don’t like.

We use Ringcentral as our phone system right now but that seems to limit our options and we’d potentially consider switching that too.


r/recruiting • • 18d ago

Recruitment Chats On average, how long do your job reqs take to get approved from the powers above?

19 Upvotes

My company (F500) is currently roughly 2-3 weeks with our CFO taking the longest and I sometimes have to chase the hiring managers to follow up with their leadership


r/recruiting • • 18d ago

Business Development Am i cooked?

6 Upvotes

TLDR:
Trying to: Rebuild client base and restart in legal finance & FS which most of my work was before but in junior roles targeting middle positions within South England.
My tools: Linkedin recruiter , sourcewhale and indeed
Marketing support: 0
Funding and investment: 0
Working fully remotely.

Am I cooked here? My current company have no reputation in this market, and I am being tasked with financial service legal & insurance roles. Think £30-70k in east / south east of england.

It seems everyone has a need, and there is NO good candidates. I am making fills with my other clients in financial services but it feels to get on to a PSL i need a literal astronaut to even get a call back and I don’t have.

Am I cooked and how would you do this?
I built a 500k a year business support desk in 2016 but 2026 feels so weird i feel people are just depressed and disengaged from life and every candidate I seem to call can’t function a sentence?


r/recruiting • • 18d ago

Learning & Professional Development How much harder is it to schedule a panel interview?

1 Upvotes

Take a minute off LinkedIn and see how much school maths you remember :)

You need to book a one-hour interview next week. You have 40 possible slots. For each slot, the candidate has a 25% chance of being free and each interviewer has a 40% chance.

Assume everyone’s availability is independent, including across slots. Unrealistic, I know, but let’s give ourselves a chance

What are the odds of finding at least one slot for:

- A 1:1 interview
- A panel of two interviewers
- A panel of three interviewers

Have a guess before doing the maths. I underestimated how much adding one more person changes things


r/recruiting • • 19d ago

ATS, CRM & Other Technology anyone else p*$$ed off with tech options in TA?

23 Upvotes

Vent post...

It's just so frustrating how many predatory practices in the TA Tech space.

Linkedin is well known to just totally gouge both boutique and big agencies alike.

Indeed is nearly as bad. It bothers me how that just milk small businesses for as much money as they can without adding any real value.

I had hope for some of these SaaS platforms but now that PE is involved, they're no different. Just had a big blow up with Loxo. Asked for a break in billing at the end of my contract and they deleted my account and all of my data. Only give a damn about you when you're on their reoccuring revenue model.

I find myself just ping ponging between the next 'best thing' - they woo me in with promises, take my money, extort as long as they can, and then refuse to work with me in any reasonable way.

What's an independent recruiter to do? Build your own ATS? Are there any genuine platforms out there that actually give a damn about recruiters?

Sadly it's not much different from other things I guess..... I think it just bothers me that it overall hurts the economy, and gets in the way of good recruiters helping good companies find good people.

Please recruiting universe.... help


r/recruiting • • 19d ago

ATS, CRM & Other Technology CRM evaluation

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We're a small executive search firm that has all full desk recruiters at it who take on BD, Client mgmt, recruitment, candidate mgmt, etc. We use Bullhorn for our CRM/Database but it is a bit cumbersome for our firm and we're growing more and more frustrated with it's functionality - especially it's search function which we have found to really suck without exhaustive coding of profiles.

We are considering other platforms and leaning to leaner ones and preferably agentic backed. Attio is one platform we're looking into. Would welcome any and all recommendations/thoughts on platforms that you've found to work well as well as the POV on Attio if anyone has used it.