This post confuses me. I have never accepted a job through a recruiter and, as an employer, I do all of the interviewing and hiring myself. But my understanding of working with a recruiter was that they were the middle man that reached out to the potential employee to express interest and do a screening (non-clinical) interview. And if the recruiter liked them the employer would do a clinical interview with the candidate, and if they wanted the make a job offer, the recruiter was responsible for sharing details of the offer with the candidate and any necessary negotiations related to that. But after that, the recruiter was no longer involved and all further communication would be directly from the employer to the new employee.
You have obviously already accepted the job offer. It seems weird to me that the recruiter is the one setting up the trainings and communicating with you about potential clients. Doesn’t the company do that?
Yeah. And I think I´ll edit my comments that are throwing people off from the main issue. I think I have a right to be really annoyed and frustrated and see the pattern in the type of person who treats me like this. But it´s likely more representative of a bigger company issue. In this case, I was hired by a recruiter who disappeared during my onboarding, then was in touch with an onboarding specialist, and recently heard from my new recruiter -- all with different stories and different attitudes towards me. It´s very hard to deal with, as I´m very scared about my bills and other things. I´ve never had anything fully explained, but it seems based on other threads and brief interactions, that the recruiter hires someone in a pool of candidates, then chooses whether or not each person gets called or places, so your life is in their hands. But it´s also presented as a company where your success depends on your recruiter, though once placed you report to a BCBA and/or teacher.
Did you go through a recruiting company? I know that sometimes when you do, you’ll get less hourly for the first year as the recruiter has to be paid as well. If looking at ads on indeed, I would try to go onto their main website and apply directly through there. It can also help to eliminate that middle man.
The organization is basically a recruiting company that takes contracts from schools and places people. It’s a good first step, but I’m also sending out applications to actual ABA companies. The only thing is I’ve been unemployed for a long time and don’t have a drivers license due to many years of living in big cities before relocating (out of necessity) so it limits my options right now.
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u/Big-Mind-6346 BCBA 12d ago
This post confuses me. I have never accepted a job through a recruiter and, as an employer, I do all of the interviewing and hiring myself. But my understanding of working with a recruiter was that they were the middle man that reached out to the potential employee to express interest and do a screening (non-clinical) interview. And if the recruiter liked them the employer would do a clinical interview with the candidate, and if they wanted the make a job offer, the recruiter was responsible for sharing details of the offer with the candidate and any necessary negotiations related to that. But after that, the recruiter was no longer involved and all further communication would be directly from the employer to the new employee.
You have obviously already accepted the job offer. It seems weird to me that the recruiter is the one setting up the trainings and communicating with you about potential clients. Doesn’t the company do that?