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Recourse against a headhunter?

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by h.j.miller,cisa,cdp

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TOTALLY hypothetical question:
You make contact with a headhunter by email after seeing his post on a listserv. He follows up, says he can help you, and asks for a resume. You send it. He comes back and asks you for your ideal job description. You send it, and hear no more from him. He contacts your manager, telling him you are looking and offering his services to fill your position when [or before] you are gone. What recourse do you have? Recourse in law? Recourse in professional societies?

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by Former member

Let his boss know what he just did, hypothetically speaking of course!

by road-dog

Is there any confidentiality verbage in your hypothetical agreement with this headhunter? I suspect that it probably will not cover this particular breach of protocol. I think that you should get a lawyer and if this costs you your current position before you are ready to bail, then you have damages. I think that you are due some "go away" money at least.

by james r linn

Did you get fired, or bumped off of a promotion track? If your boss had no recation, then there isn't much to sue for.

You should report this person to any associations that these people have, and add the better business bureau as well.

James

by radiic

hypothetically hire a hit man...But then you wont be able to hypothetically sue him then.

Rad

by ferocious

Hypothetically, since you must have found out about it from the manager (since the HH never provided feedback but you somehow caught wind of it), your best bet is to contact a Recruiters Association, preferably the one that the HH company is a member of and give them the details. Inform them that you will be taking legal action based on the conduct of the recruiter if it is determined that he or she damaged your employment status with your company and that compensatory damages may be forthcoming. I don't know where you are located, but I did a search on Google using the key words "code of ethics recruiters" and got a lot of hits for recruiting agencies' codes of ethics.

by lance.gillis

Impossible? No. Unlikely? Very. Recruiters are in business like everyone else and rely on their reputation. This senario is extremely far fetched and should be regulated to a round file found on the floor next to your desk.

by golfloon

Don't be so sure having worked in IT Recruitment industry in the UK I have seen many things. What you have to realise is a Head Hunter / Recruitment Consultant cannot miss revenue target three months consecutively. If they are on their second bad month they start taking chances by their third month they get desperate and have nothing to lose. Be warned!!!!

by t bowman

He would hypothetically wish he'd picked someone
besides me. Nothing illegal, but I'd use every single resource I could think of to make his life miserable.

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