Using different recruiter 1 month apart

[web]

Hi,

Apologies if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find it on the forum.

I was submitted to a position at a company, but never heard back from the recruiter.

About a month later, another position came up:
- different recruiter
- same company

Normally, I wouldn't consider being submitted twice. However, I've compared the two positions and the job description is very different to the original one.

Is it ok to submit with the 2nd recruiter?

Thanks!

[Pondlife]

Yes.

Unless you signed a contract stating otherwise or sent them an email saying they have the sole right to represent you with clientco for all future engagements.

[web]

Perfect. Thanks for the quick response!

[northernladuk]

Pondy is, as usual, quite correct. I've been caught and lost out by being submitted twice for the gig but have to say after a month even if I knew it was the same gig I'd be comfortable applying via the second recruiter. A month is long enough for the first agent to sort his tulip out.

Just a weird situation on this I came across once though. A certain financial client in West Yorkshire has a very strange policy that the first person that puts you forward for anything gets dibs for evermore. I applied a gig with agent A and eventually turned it down before interview. Many months later I applied via a different agent who came back and told me because i'd been put forward by client A they had dibs. He didn't cause a fuss, just shrugged and said that's the way this client was. Rung agent A and they'd put forward the Max number of CVs and mine wasn't one of them. What a shower of tulip. I couldn't apply via the agency that had dibs on me and wasn't allowed to be put forward by anyone else. Someone at client Co. needs shooting for agreeing to that bollocks.

[psychocandy]

One thing to think of. One month ago agent A told you they'd submitted you - nothing to prove they did.

[WTFH]

I once had an agent who (claimed to) put me forward for a specific role in a client. He didn't tell me the client name but gave the location as between two towns that are 20 miles apart.
Four weeks later, having chased the agent, I had heard nothing but a separate agent contacted me for a different role. They told me the name of the exact location & name of the client.
I was interviewed and got the role.
After a few weeks the first agent contacted me, threatening to sue me, angry that I had taken a job through another agent.
I pointed out:
1. It was a completely different role
2. The location he gave was vague
3. He refused to name the company
4. He never came back to me

The big one, though, was that when I asked the client if they had received my CV from him for the other role, they said no.
So, he had told me he was putting me in for the role just to get me off the market for other agents.

I told him to take it up with the other agent and the client. Strangely enough, he backed down

[NibblyPig]

It's happened to me several times that a recruiter phones me about a role, discussion as they sell it to me, I agree to it, they put my CV forward, I hear nothing. Then the next day (or 2 days, or a week later!) another recruiter asks if I have been put forward for the role, I say yes, they say mind if I check with client if you actually have? They phone back, say I haven't been put forward, they'll put me forward instead if I want.

What is the first recruiter doing, and why? I don't know what to do to solve this.

[stek]

It's happened to me several times that a recruiter phones me about a role, discussion as they sell it to me, I agree to it, they put my CV forward, I hear nothing. Then the next day another recruiter asks if I have been put forward for the role, I say yes, they say mind if I check with client if you actually have? They phone back, say I haven't been put forward, they'll put me forward instead if I want.

What is the first recruiter doing, and why? I don't know what to do to solve this.

You give them permission to have first dibs on you for say 48 hrs, if nothing happens, go to next agent.....

[pr1]

What is the first recruiter doing, and why?

submitting three other CV's to client before yours (or up to his limit), then telling you you've been submitted so you don't compete for the roll through someone else

[SlipTheJab]

submitting three other CV's to client before yours (or up to his limit), then telling you you've been submitted so you don't compete for the roll through someone else

+1 This. And they wonder why we treat them with such disdain.