Wilson Cole's Podcast From The Road

For this podcast, Wilson Cole, President of Adams, Evens, & Ross (AER), Samantha Cole, in-house counsel for AER, and Luke Menzies, UK solicitor, discuss back door hires. It turns out that back door hires in the UK occur in about the same manner as they do in the US. A recruiting agency introduces a candidate, client company says they’re not interested and then goes quiet, and turns out a few month later that the client company hired the candidate in secret so the recruiting agency would know nothing about it (or that they are owed a fee). The excuses for back door hires in the UK are also very similar to the excuses for back door hires in the US: 1) “we forgot you presented the candidate to us when we just happened to find them on LinkedIn later on,” 2) “we didn’t understand or receive your terms of service,” 3) “the same candidate was introduced by a different agency,” and 4) “we knew them already.” Luke explains that the worst thing a recruiting agency can do to hurt their case after it learns a back do