u/Additional_Room5829

Prior to me joining, my employer has worked with numerous agencies over the years and some roles took well over 1 year to be filled while working with multiple agencies.

Right now, we are working with boutique and agencies with 1-8 employees and one larger agency with 150+. The difference is huge. With the smaller agencies is almost feel like they are overburdened and after a week or 2 they kind of give up. I understand because they are doing business outreach and candidate sourcing.

ON the other hand, the larger agency is delivering way above expectations. They have a lot of sourcing tools, they have multiple sourcers assigned to roles along with the recruiter. They are always at it. They do charge a lot and I understand why.

Anyone here worked for an international/larger agency and how was the experience?

I have a LinkedIn page for about 7 years with about 120 connections and no activity.

About 2 weeks ago I started a business and decided to put myself out there with LinkedIn posts. I am in the recruiting space and my business is a very niche recruiting firm, so my posts are very centered around candidates winning and how they get treated poorly by other recruiters/companies. I post once per day. I get a lot of comments but I find it tiring to respond to them so I don't. Comments on each post tend to be around 100 but I know if I comment and engage on my posts it could reach over 1000.

How do people manage this when they are super busy? Any automation tools available for this?

I am thinking of charging a pipeline building service fee - 50-100 candidates at $2500

and another conversion fee at $8000.

Anyone in here provide this service? Is this realistic?

So the head of our company asked me to bring on a few agencies to help with recruiting because we need to speed things up for our hard to fill roles. He interviewed a candidate yesterday from an agency and really loved him. Good right? No, he was flabbergasted that this candidate will cost us $80k (25% placement fee). It's difficult to find someone like him.

With that said, I am happy he is aware of how "invaluable" I am to the company as I am finding these top candidates throughout the year and getting paid less than one placement fee.

Question: have you ever successfully negotiate a rate after signing a contract with an agency and about to make an offer to the candidate?