The perils of cut-price recruitment (July 2003)

Recently a headhunter approached a member of the fixed-income department of a leading international bank to try to recruit him for a rival. The candidate, intrigued by the sound of the job, decided to pursue the matter. But it soon turned out that the hiring bank was the very one he had walked out of just months before.

Recently a headhunter approached a member of the fixed-income department of a leading international bank to try to recruit him for a rival. The candidate, intrigued by the sound of the job, decided to pursue the matter. But it soon turned out that the hiring bank was the very one he had walked out of just months before.

The recruitment business is awash with such embarrassing tales of confusion between banks’ business line managers, their own human resources departments and external headhunters.

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