High-level Senior Executives Need Agents not Recruiters

Hiring a job search agent dedicated to you without any ties to employers is a competitive advantage. Your hired representative exclusively promotes your interests and provides expert confidential, customized support strategizing, organizing, and implementing a discreet, swifter, smoother transition into a new career opportunity matching your needs. A sophisticated agent maximizes your market value, identifies key contacts, manages an efficient campaign, and eliminates obstacles, overcomes barriers, and removes threats while preserving your reputation and privacy.

 Recruiters and agents have different allegiances.

As a candidate, don’t confuse the cooperation of an executive search recruiter with the guaranteed loyalty of a personal job search agent. To earn a fee, recruiters must find a potential new employee for a company who fulfills their job requirements and accepts an offer. In contrast, as your agent, I work for you to find a new position that you want, one that matches your expectations. As your representative, I always promote your interests regardless of who the employer is.  JobWhiz services are performed against a fixed retainer payable in advance and fees do not vary based on salary nor is there a long-term commission arrangement as exists among agents in the entertainment field.

 Understand the distinction between an agent’s and a recruiter’s business model.

While a recruiter can offer career guidance and choose to offer resume assistance, interview coaching or informal networking connections, they are mostly doing this to make a placement and keep their client companies satisfied. They cannot force an employer to hire you and can only “find a job for you” when an employer is hiring and is willing to compensate the recruiter for introducing you.

JobWhiz guarantees the right connections to the role you want.

I promise to create the right network to access hiring decision-makers and uncover unadvertised opportunities in the hidden job market. The hidden job market is where 80% of executives land. Unadvertised jobs are far less competitive than listed openings and there is more room for restructuring responsibilities, changing authority, modifying benefits, etc. than if a job description has been published.

 Get more control over your life.

Meeting with hiring authorities and other key contacts gives JobWhiz clients more control over their career journey. Today, employers don’t provide job security. Developing the right network is like career insurance. Contacts are mentors, sponsors, and offer recommendations and unsolicited new job leads.

 A firewall between candidates and employers eliminates divided loyalties.

Intentionally, I don’t have any current or past employer relationships in order to avoid conflicts of interest. I also do not work with two clients in the same field, in the same industry, in the same area of expertise simultaneously. In contrast, recruiters present a slate of several suitable candidates to their clients for consideration. A recruiter’s goal is to fill the employer’s job vacancy and move on to the next assignment and additional revenues. A recruiter is rarely useful to individual job seekers without an existing purchase order and an employer willing to pay a finder’s fee. (A recruiter’s time is valuable. Recruiters are hesitant to strain an employer relationship by asking for a placement fee unless there is an agreement in place.)

 Agents give candidates who hire them an advantage over their competition.

More employers are relying on employee referrals, their corporate career postings and their own networks to find candidates. Paying external recruiters happens after exhausting no cost or less expensive hiring methods. When you hire an agent, employers aren’t charged but they get the white-glove treatment they have enjoyed, a liaison to qualified talent, administrative assistance and they save costs.

 Replace threats with competitive advantages

 I provide a practical gameplan describing the swiftest, smoother campaign to get clients from where they are to where they want to be guarding their reputation, protecting their privacy, maximizing their value, and allowing executives to keep their commitments and delegate many job search tasks and activities including research, corporate due diligence, drafting correspondence, scheduling meetings, making phone calls, surveying social media, interview preparation, PR, etc. Uniquely, the process of unearthing hidden job leads is accelerated by identifying and anticipating barriers, roadblocks, and obstacles and then removing, eliminating, or overcoming threats to job search progress.