Anti Competitive behaviour

[DodgyAgent]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_search

In IT non-executives can be head hunted - usually they are top people (among their peers), some of the main signs of real head hunt are:

a) small number of people - very high value
b) people are often named, ie - head hunt Bill Gates or limited to people who are top in a given field (up to agent to find them)

I doubt you do head hunting

I am not a headhunter, nor have ever claimed to be one. I do however use referrals and will pick up names to call using any devious means that I can

[AtW]

I do however use referrals and will pick up names to call using any devious means that I can

I could give you a referral if you want

[DodgyAgent]

What makes you think companies owe you a living? If agents were providing really valuable services in that case then companies would continue using them. If you actually get them people who make money add value, then there is problem paying you a %-tage of that. Simples?

what are you on about?

[AtW]

what are you on about?

You started this thread talking about declined margins in that business.

btw, from this I note that clearly you were not in it in order to help find poor employees much better employer.

Anyhow, my question to you yet again - what makes you think companies owe you a living? They can choose to use your services or not surely, and if they offer 5% margin and it's not enough for you then you could do something else.

Like real head hunting for example.

[oracleslave]

Y

Anyhow, my question to you yet again - what makes you think companies owe you a living?

Is the point not that they are stopping DA from earning a better living through unfair and possibly illegal/anti-competitive behaviour?

[AtW]

Is the point not that they are stopping DA from earning a better living through unfair and possibly illegal/anti-competitive behaviour?

Nobody is stopping him - they are just refusing to pay as much as they paid in the past. He is just saying that his game plan was shafted because agents ain't getting as much as before to justify that parasitic (in my view) behavior.

What if companies refused to use agents at all and required direct contact with their HR, would that be anti competitive?

Anti-competitive *might* be using exclusively dominant recruiter who'd use its market position to gain unfair advantage.

[jmo21]

price fixing is about setting high prices on goods/services.

It is not about the unfairness of client refusal to pay more than they want to.

Should we contractors do the same? Complain about clients refusing to pay us more per day?