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Here's one noteworthy peer-to-peer education model in Paris newly opened in November 2013 to students around the world, tuition FREE! — École 42  — The school, housed in a former government building used to educate teachers (ironically enough), was started by Xavier Niel. The founder and majority owner of French ISP Free, Niel is a billionaire many times over. He’s not well known in the U.S., but here he is revered as one of the country’s great entrepreneurial successes in tech. This French Tech School Has No Teachers, No Books, No tuition — And It Could Change EverythingAbove: Nicolas Sadirac, the director of the ambitious, free, French tech school Ecole 42. Image Credit: Dylan Tweney/VentureBeatNicolas Sadirac, a French entrepreneur and educator, is the school’s director. Before École 42 he ran Epitech, a well-regarded, private, for-profit school that trained software engineers.PARIS — École 42 might be one of the most ambitious experiments in engineering education.It has no teachers. No books. No MOOCs. No dorms, gyms, labs, or student centers. No tuition.And yet it plans to turn out highly qualified, motivated software engineers, each of whom has gone through an intensive two- to three-year program designed to teach them everything they need to know to become outstanding programmers.The school, housed in a former government building used to educate teachers (ironically enough), was started by Xavier Niel. The founder and majority owner of French ISP Free, Niel is a billionaire many times over. He’s not well known in the U.S., but here he is revered as one of the country’s great entrepreneurial successes in tech. He is also irrepressibly upbeat, smiling and laughing almost nonstop for the hour that he led a tour through École 42 earlier this week. (Who wouldn’t be, with that much wealth? Yet I have met much more dour billionaires before.) Niel started École 42 with a 70 million euro donation. He has no plans for it to make money, ever.“I know one business, and that’s how to make software,” Niel said. “I made a lot of money and I want to give something back to my country,” he explained.To make the school self-sustaining, he figures that future alumni will give back to their school, just as alumni of other schools do. If a few of them become very rich, as Niel has, perhaps they, too, will give millions to keep it going.The basic idea of École 42 is to throw all the students — 800 to 1,000 per year — into a single building in the heart of Paris, give them Macs with big Cinema displays, and throw increasingly difficult programming challenges at them. The students are given little direction about how to solve the problems, so they have to turn to each other — and to the Internet — to figure out the solutions.The challenges are surprisingly difficult. One student I talked with was coding a ray tracer and building an emulation of the 3-D dungeon in Castle Wolfenstein within his first few months at the school. Six months earlier, he had barely touched a computer and knew nothing of programming. He hadn’t even finished high school.In fact, 40% of École 42′s students haven’t finished high school. Others have graduated from Stanford or MIT or other prestigious institutions. But École 42 doesn’t care about their background — all it cares about is whether they can complete the projects and move on. The only requirement is that they be between the ages of 18 and 30.“We don’t ask anything about what they’ve done before,” Niel said.Yet École 42 is harder to get into than Harvard: Last year, 70,000 people attempted the online qualification test. 20,000 completed the test, and of those, 4,000 were invited to spend four weeks in Paris doing an intensive project that had them working upwards of 100 hours a week on various coding challenges. In the end, 890 students were selected for the school’s inaugural class, which began in November, 2013. (The average age is 22, and 11 percent of the first class is female.)890 students out of 70,000 applicants means an acceptance rate a little north of 1%, or if you only count those who completed the test, 4.5%. By contrast, Harvard accepts about 6% of its applicants. And, even with financial aid, it charges a whole lot more than ZERO for its classes.The upshot: If it works, the school’s course of education will produce coders who are incredibly self-motivated, well-rounded in all aspects of software engineering, and willing to work hard. (The four-week tryout alone, with its 100-hour weeks, blows away the French government’s official 35-hour-work week.)All of École 42′s projects are meant to be collaborative, so the students work in teams of two to five people. At first glance, the École’s classrooms look a little bit like a factory floor or a coding sweatshop, with row after row of Aeron-style chairs facing row after row of big monitors. But a closer look reveals that the layout is designed to facilitate small-group collaboration, with the monitors staggered so that students can easily talk to one another, on the diagonals between the monitors or side by side with the people next to them. Students can come and go as they please; the school is open 24 hours a day and has a well-appointed cafeteria in the basement (with a wine cellar that can hold 5,000 bottles, just in case the school needs to host any parties).Students share all of their code on Github (naturally). They communicate with one another, and receive challenges and tests, via the school’s intranet. Everything else they figure out on their own, whether it means learning trigonometry, figuring out the syntax for C code, or picking up techniques to index a database.Tests are essentially pass-fail: Your team either completes the project or it doesn’t. One administrator compared it to making a car: In other schools, getting a test 90% right means an A; but if you make a car with just three out of four wheels, it is a failure. At École 42, you don’t get points for making it part way there — you have to make a car with all four wheels.The no-teachers approach makes sense, as nearly anything you need to know about programming can now be found, for free, on the Internet. Motivated people can easily teach themselves any language they need to know in a few months of intensive work. But motivation is what’s hard to come by, and to sustain — ask anyone who has tried out Codecademy but not stuck with it. That has prompted the creation of “learn to code” bootcamps and schools around the world. École 42 takes a similar inspiration but allows the students to generate their own enthusiasm via collaborative (and somewhat competitive) teamwork.Sadirac and Niel say that some prestigious universities have already expressed interest in the school’s approach. The two are considering syndicating the model to create similar schools in other countries.But even if they never expand beyond Paris, École 42 could become a signNow force in software education. France already has a reputation for creating great engineers (in software as well as in many other fields).If École 42 adds another thousand highly-motivated, entrepreneurial software engineers to the mix every year, it could very quickly accelerate this country’s competitiveness in tech.And the model will force schools like Harvard to make an extra effort to justify their high tuitions. If you can get training like this for free, and you want to be a software engineer, why go to Harvard?(news link:) This French tech school has no teachers, no books, no tuition -- and it could change everything

I was Shaken. Felt VOIDAnswer is going to be very long - I have not expressed my feeling to anyone after that day so here is lengthy answer (yeah - another Introvert !). This happened in PUNE.It was a good day with blue cloudless sky and warming temperature, I woke up early since I was in first shift so started earlier to office.signNowed office, had some work that I owned and went with colleagues for breakfast, when came back noticed HR and manger were discussing something in meeting room, I continued my work, until interrupted by manger to come along with him, so I did.In Meeting RoomM: How are you Mr. XXX?me: I am well and good , feeling quite good today.M: hmm, so Mr. XXX, how many years you have been working for XYZ and how was your experience so far ?me : (what the hell he is asking me this, wondering why he is asking this question to me) completed 2.5 years so far (I joined as fresher there ) and told regular rotten things like feels good , good work culture,bla bla bla.M: okay, let me come to the point - there is feedback for you from team mates that you are not doing well and keeps sleeping at nights when you are in night shift , your attitude towards work is not good. Is that true ?me : (I was shocked for few mins and I took me while to get out of it )I am sure there must be some misunderstanding, this is not true (In my mind, I smelled something fishy )M: Well, Mr. XXX, I have feedback in written for you and that must be true and I don’t think it might be some misunderstanding. Let me call HR to join here ( I came to know this later that this was pre-planned and both HR and manger were already hand in hand)While waiting for HRme : (sweated, my throat went dry ) -felt anxious, my heart was beating fastlyM: waited calmly with mild smile on his faceHR joins meetingHR: how are you Mr. XXX,M: hmm, he is quite frightenedHR: hey XXX, relax, do you want to drink some water ? (while opening a bottle )me: did not utter a single word (I was sweating )HR : Forcefully handed over water bottleme: did drink some waterHR : I have a news for you, we here are XYZ no longer require your services and you are relieved from today and you may leave after this meeting.me : what ? what ? (heartbeat on high, could not believe on my ears )HR: Relax, calm down, you will get your 2 months salary and relieving letter along with form 16 and pay slips, you may leave nowme : Almost broke into tears literally, my eyes were RED.HR and M : they were just watching me what I am going through.me: Sir, Madam, there is some misunderstanding here, I kept telling this is not true in different ways.HR & M : both silent - no words spoken.me : again - I kept telling and trying to explain.HR : Please leave your id at me and get your stuff and leave - otherwise I have to call securityme : (coming out of shock , I was explaining like a beggar to someone rich )I am from lower middle classed family, my father is retired from school as clerk and mother is housewife , I have responsibility of younger brother for his education and I have to support my family. (M was very well aware about my background )HR : (in somewhat harsher and loud voice) : Please get out.me : I literally grabbed HR and manager feet to show me some mercyHR : XXX, please leave ASAP.meanwhile, M calls security to escort me to the gate , few mins passed, a security personnel comes in and requests me to come along with him.me : while standing and giving merciful look to both - still hoping they will revert their decision and came out of meeting room and headed towards washroomI asked security personnel to wait outside washroom and let me wash me eyes that were much REDDER and shred me tears.I came out of washroom and asked security personnel to wait at main door and requested not to come by desk very politely, he agreed, went to my cubicle , did not show any sign for what happened, took my stuff as if I am searching for something from my drawer ,just so as not to take doubt among team mates , took my stuff and gave a smile back to team mates who were not having any idea that I am leaving PERMANENTLYI walked very SLOWLY with security guy and came out of building.signNowed room (there was no one at room- room mate was at job, we were just two guys )- I CRIED AND CRIED AND CRIED FOR HOURS - and for the first time in life I experienced GREAT VOIDI was constantly thinking of my family (I was unmarried then ) and their dreams, their hopes - all gone just like that !!(I always used to send 90% my salary to home for support and brother’s education so I was not having any big bucks in banks )On the same day - I got some many calls from my colleagues - news was spread finally , did not answered single one.They all came to meet me and I told what M told me about them and they said no one has given any feedback.I did not broke news to my home - I broke it when I went to home after 1.5 months.I broke it to my room mate after 2 days.Meanwhile - I decided to change my spends towards my lifestyle since I was only having 3k in my salary account and I have to live with that for at least 2.5 months since I could not ask for money at home.I used to eat just a SINGLE WADA PAO for a day and cup of tea - you heard it - just a single wada pao for a day and a cup of tea and I have to prepare for interviews as well with this empty stomach -Whenever I got interview call - I spent money for transport and skipped eating Wada Pao and shamelessly used to ask at interview locations if they are proving free meals for candidatesI lost almost 15–20 kgs in 1.5 monthsThis continued for 8 months and finally I got a decent job !!(I faced so many cross questions like why did you leave your job in middle while holding no offer - since it was mentioned by HR on releasing certificate that I am, XXX, wants to move on )P.S.Later I come to know that HR had hired someone from college pass out from M referral who was relative of M.There were no issues among team mates - my team was really decent team - just t0 be clear.My Room mate helped me a LOT during this periodForgive my poor English and grammatical errorsI moved on and LIFE HAS TAUGHT ME A GOOD LESSON THAT I WILL NEVER FORGET.

When I was a broke college student in the early 1990s, I worked in a busy bookstore in a mall in downtown Boston.The register was located at the front of the store, on a raised platform, so we could monitor customers as they came and left.One day when I was working the register, I noticed a cute guy enter the store carrying a metal clipboard—the kind that had a compartment for storing a notebook or additional paperwork.After disappearing into the back of the store, the guy returned moments later and got in line. When it was his turn, he smiled at me, opened the clipboard’s compartment, and ...

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We usually rely on a combination of suggestions from friends and acquaintances in the software industry who have implemented their own HR software management systems, looking up great reviews and taking in insights from industry experts and practitioners like this one about top HR management software, scouring user forums, and patiently referring to stories of user cases. Rounding up what we’ve gleaned from these multiple sources, our shortlist gave us three of the leading solutions in the market: BambooHR, Freshteam and Gusto HR.BambooHR. Our search for a human resources management software was spurred by our company’s need to administer benefits to a growing number of workers. Turns out BambooHR is especially empowered to address this need: a centralized database defines and holds the benefits for each of our employees. As you can imagine, the system allows our HR manager to summon and use any pertinent data in no time.BambooHR fields 12 benefit types applicable to all groups of employees, and employees can change the necessary entries upon every update in their status (health insurance, marriage, and much more). We are quite impressed that BambooHR offers a modifiable rate health plan, which means that you can easily track even age-based plans and automatically calculate the variable amounts employees have to pay. For the same operation, companies typically have to implement third-party programs that are integrated with the system.We also came to prize the reporting capabilities of BambooHR: along with the standard Equal Employment Opportunity reports, you can have it pull out benefits reports. The reports are based on files stored and categorized in the virtual database, and will automatically summarize and consider all applicable taxes. And as with most essential operations in BambooHR, reporting can be done using a mobile device.Freshteam. Freshteam makes it easy to access and engage candidates, then collect structured feedback and conduct scheduled interviews. You can send out notifications to each candidate and team member, and offer a dedicated conversation field with intelligent response templates. You can sync your personal inbox and correspond with candidates right from Freshteam, and send bulk email to save additional time.To manage your job postings, Freshteam initially prompts you to design define your job postings. Once you have taken care of that, you can proceed to share the output on internal portals and popular career sites. If you happen to be short on ideas, Freshteam provides you with attractive and modifiable templates. You can of course create a brand-new listing with detailed descriptions. You can associate each vacancy with a specific hiring team for maximal transparency, and the team can configure any of the hiring workflow stages to make the candidate’s experience more personalized.All hiring operations are contained within a single dashboard, making it easy for managers preserve full control over the hiring process. Familiarizing new talents about personalized rules and policies is a breeze, ensuring they have a good grasp of the crucial tools they could use to remain valuable professionals .Gusto HR. If your company is handicapped by lack of expert human resources personnel, implementing Gusto HR will give the impression that you suddenly acquired quite a few of the top HR pros in the field.Among other things, the Gusto HR guarantees ACA compliance: it files new-hire paperwork automatically, and assists you with federal W-4s and I-9s. It also expertly handles workers’ compensation, ensuring that you will only be paying what you really owe. Gusto HR dives into critical details of your HR operations to ensure you are not found amiss on HIPAA, ACA, and ERISA standards, automatically ascertaining needed data and all benefits are screened for compliance.Further on, Gusto HR allows employees to set and manage their 401(k) plans, enroll in specific benefits schemes, and save money for their retirement.To minimize errors from human operations, Gusto centralizes data and makes them readily available for any employee Gusto account. Gusto allows employees to access their data anytime from any device, and they can make the necessary changes without the manager’s intervention.

I was accepted to Stanford on a full scholarship as a transfer student from a California Community College at the age of 28. My husband was very sick at the time and couldn't work, so we made do on food stamps and AFDC. I worked as much as I could (under the table) to keep a roof over our heads and pay for his medical bills, going so far as to take a nannying job 3–4 nights a week, caring for the 3 year old son of a single father who was also the graveyard shift on-call oncologist at the medical center. He paid fairly well, but we were always one small disaster away from homelessness.i managed to get pregnant at the beginning of my last year, a co-term year during which I earned my master’s degree. You haven't lived until you've spent nine months working towards a post-graduate degree at Stanford, growing more and more pregnant by the day, juggling four jobs in two counties, wrangling with a social worker who keeps telling you to quit school and find a job making $10/hr as a fry cook, commuting 2–3 hours every day from Santa Cruz to Palo Alto and back over a tsignNowerous mountain road with NO PUBLIC RESTROOMS AT ALL to care for a husband who could not walk, needed to be rushed to the emergency room at least three or four times a month and whose doctors gave him only a 50/50 chance of living to see the birth of our first and only child.I would listen to my classmates talk about their family villas on Majorca, using “summer” as a verb, while calculating in my head if I could find enough change in my sofa to buy a bag of dry beans so we could eat for another week until the next month’s food stamps came in. They would discuss their plans to kayak some fjord in Iceland over spring break while I looked forward to working triple shifts and standing in line at the grocery store, getting dirty looks from disgusted customers who didn't like being held up by the clearly lazy and irresponsible welfare queen who was using a WIC voucher to pay for a carton of milk, a can of tuna and a tube of frozen orange juice concentrate. They asked me to come along in their BMWs to go wine tasting in Napa for the weekend while I wondered if I had enough bus money to get back to Santa Cruz to sign papers and advocate for my incoherent husband, who was in the hospital again and in danger of receiving treatment from one of his six specialists that could render useless or even combine lethally with the treatment prescribed by another, because they didn't bother to communicate with each other. And all the while, of course, thinking “okay, I can't afford maternity clothes, so I'm wearing one of my husband’s old workshirts every day, but can you not clearly see I'm as pregnant as fucking octomom?? I can't remember the last time I even had a cup of full-caff coffee, let alone a glass of wine! DUH!”When I got too big to ride my bike around campus, I would take the shuttle to my classes, where too often I would end up standing for the whole ride, because the seats were all full of students too consumed by their phones to notice the whale of a person standing in front of them trying to stabilize her center of gravity because of the 8 pound baby in her uterus and the 30 pound bag of books on her back. I had to battle the urge to challenge all of them to a fist fight for their obliviousness.Toward the end of that year, as I waddled toward the finish line, I found myself almost delirious from chronic sleep-deprivation. The one thing that kept me going was the miraculous fact that my baby was not due until a couple of weeks after graduation. Somehow I became fixated on the idea that I would get to go see a movie, for fun, between the time I graduated and the time I became a mother. It was all I thought about, honestly, as I trudged from one obligation to the next. I would be sitting in the dark, by myself, in a chair that probably was too small for my now-grotesque body, out of which I would have to heave myself every 15 minutes to use the bathroom, but damn was I ever looking forward to it! Two whole hours to myself, with no more bitchy egotistical TAs to contend with, no more deadlines, no more cramming for finals, no more arriving home after a fourteen hour day with feet so swollen and painful that it took me ten minutes to ratchet up the nerve to pry them out of my shoes. Maybe I would even fall asleep over my unbuttered, unsalted popcorn for half an hour!it was with this decadent fantasy in mind that I sat to write my last essay. It was, as I recall, an analysis of William Faulkner’s “Absalom! Absalom!” Twenty minutes in, I began to feel a little funny. I tried to write it off as indigestion, but by the time I was halfway though with the paper, i could deny it no longer. I was in labor.i finished my essay, breathing through the contractions, pushed “print”, sighed a little sadly, packed a bag and drove myself to the hospital, where I gave birth, with no drugs (except a well-deserved shot of Wild Turkey when it was all over), even when the baby went into cardiac distress and they had to rip me a new vagina in their haste to get her out, not even when they put in 36 stitches afterward to sew me back together. When they whisked her away to work on her, and I was alone again, I pulled that last essay from my bag, walked myself down to the nurse’s station, stitches and all, and faxed it to my professor with a note of apology, hoping he would understand why I couldn't be at our planned meeting that morning.I graduated five days later, with high honors. I still have the picture: my diploma in one hand and my baby in the other: My Week in Review.It was hands-down the most stressful year of my life, including the time of my husband’s actual death, which came not too many years later.When I look back on that time, my heart nearly bursts with gratitude, for my incredible husband, who suffered grievously but tried to hide it for my sake, and who was overjoyed in spite of his suffering about the birth of our daughter. I am grateful for his nurses and orderlies, who went the extra mile to care for him when i couldn't be there. I am grateful for my understanding, compassionate professors, who reassured me that everything would be okay and who let me get up in the middle of class whenever I wanted to relieve the pressure on my tailbone. I am grateful for my social worker, whose sternness and admonishments could never hide the fact that she was rooting for us to make it. I am grateful to the government for the $92 a month that allowed us to eat when I could no longer work. I am grateful beyond words for the forces that gave me the opportunity to study with the world’s most renowned minds, to earn a degree in a field that I'm wildly passionate about, at a school that any student would be proud to attend, that gave me the will to carry and deliver a healthy baby and that gave her father the strength to live long enough to receive her into his arms and to shower on her all the love that he could muster, and all his hope for a bright future, in spite of his suffering and the knowledge of his coming death.Now, 17 years later, I'm a tenured college English teacher myself. I never did get to see that movie… but whenever I think back on that time, overwhelmingly and unmitigatedly, what I feel is gratitude.That is what it's like to be a broke Stanford student.Edit: So many thanks for all the encouraging comments. To clarify: I don’t consider myself all that extraordinary. I think most people are stronger and more resilient than they think they are, and this year proved that to me, without a doubt. I didn’t do it alone, however. I had many resources that others do not have, and I never felt for a second that the universe was being unfair to me or my family. Everyday, I see people who manage to spread joy and compassion in the face of what seems like unendurable hardship. My own students inspire me all the time, as I see them struggle through poverty, sickness, homelessness, abusive situations, substance abuse, and countless other stresses.If I could manifest one change as a result of this experience, it would be to free people from their own judgmental reactions when they encounter welfare recipients during their daily adventures. Yes, it’s true that there are some folks who take undue advantage of the safety net that this great country provides (as modest as it may be) but it has been my experience that the vast majority are doing the best they can with what they have, and take their first opportunity to leave government aid behind and join the ranks of contributing taxpayers. I was stunned by the number of nasty comments I got from people as I tried to pay for my meager cart of groceries with food stamps or WIC. Yes, I was pregnant. Yes, for all intents and purposes, I was a single parent. Yes, I was attending one of the most elite and expensive schools in the world . That was only part of the story, though. I wish more people would be mindful of the fact that facing such judgement is humiliating, exhausting and discouraging when one is just trying to get through the day, especially on top of all the other challenges that made it necessary to apply for aid to begin with. I can easily see those comments being the thing that at the end irrevocably breaks the spirit of a person who is trying harder than most people can ever imagine, for longer than seems humanly possible.Once in a while I would receive a word of encouragement or a smile. I remember every one of those moments from compassionate strangers . I stored up their supportive words as defense against the days when it seemed all too easy to just give up. I make it a point now to do the same when I see someone who looks like they might be struggling. I always want to say, hang in there. Things actually do get better if you just keep putting one foot in front of the other. Don’t give up, in spite of all the mean spiritedness that might come your way. There are more people out there who are kind and understanding, and who are on your side, even if they don’t say it out loud.

I would say yes .. no doubt about it. I came to the US when I was 22 on an F1 visa to study and I am almost 40 now. Just became a US citizen. Would I go through the whole rigmarole if given another chance? Heck no!!!At some point in your life in the US you’d start wanting to be closer to India anyway especially as your parents age (depending on how emotionally close you are to them) but by then you're too deeply invested in the US immigration->naturalization path that its hard to move anywhere else. It gets even harder when you have kids. Take my advice and move somewhere closer to India while you still can.If you really want to be in the US though one piece of advice I would like to give is that NEVER compromise your career/job prospects for your immigration status. Its not worth it. Don’t be stuck in some dead end tech job in Kansas that pays $80k/yr just because they're sponsoring your Green Card. Move to a job market where you’re highly valuable (like Silicon Valley maybe) and move around quite a bit … focus only on improving your skills and market value not your immigration status. Companies when they really want to keep or have you will make the Green Card happen for you and if it doesn't happen just move on .. back to India or to another country . You’ll be leaving with great experience, knowledge and skills and that’s something far far more important and valuable than a stupid piece of plastic.

As a headhunter, I get this question a lot.In candidate-scarce markets, companies can’t recruit the candidates they want on their own. They don’t choose to pay headhunters; they must in order to find the best talent. Headhunters cost companies anywhere from $20k-200k PER HIRE, depending on level of hire needed. Companies hate paying our fees.Here are a few reasons why companies have to pay headhunters to hire for them:#1. In candidate-scarce markets, there are not enough candidates to go around. A massive labor market shortage ensues. This is common in STEM fields (science, tech, engineering, math). Because companies don’t see any applicants to their job postings, they have no choice but to invest in other means to find staff.#2. Candidates are scared to apply directly because the market is so niche and small. Due to market forces being disproportionately beneficial to candidates, the majority of candidates prefer to use headhunters to represent them to protect confidentiality.When candidates apply directly to job portals, they fear that the word will get out that they’re looking for a new job, thus they refrain from applying at all. This “fear to apply” further exacerbates the labor shortage.#3. Companies can’t directly call and poach candidates from their competitors. They must, for legal and proprietary reasons, have the business tact of hiring a hitman to do the dirty work. Hence, the career of the headhunter was born. Now, someone else can do the snooping, stealing, and poaching!HR and internal recruiters have their hands tied. Their only recourse and resource to find candidates are job portals. If no candidates apply, they just don’t have anything to work with! As I said in point #1, as internal employees of their company, they can’t be caught poaching competitors’ candidates.#4. Headhunters can recruit without limits, with NO regulation. Headhunting as a business and industry is entirely unregulated. That’s right. There’s no SEC, ethics board, or ANYTHING. Headhunters can beg, borrow, and steal from clients at will.Sure, there are legal contracts on paper. However, in reality, headhunters will do whatever they need to do to get their way. They’re rarely caught doing anything legally prosecutable because confidentiality reigns supreme. This allows them to get anywhere they want to find candidates, unearthing candidates previously hidden.#5. Great headhunters provide protection against bad hires. When you choose a great headhunter to work with, you trust in their ability to separate fact from fiction. They find, interview, and vet harder than your internal teams would because they have a professional reputation to uphold. That’s why it’s important to have a great relationship with a headhunter you know is a trusted professional in the field you need to hire in.Headhunters will know which companies are doing well, intimate details of the market, and most importantly, who is full of crap or not. Businesses can save headache from bad hires if they have a good relationship with the best headhunters.#6. Hiring managers’ networks are limited. Hiring managers (the end client of any placement), although they may have some connections in their fields, their signNow is limited.Many hiring managers are at their company for so many years that they simply don’t have the bandwidth to network with external professionals. They’re usually so dedicated to their existing jobs, they neglect their networking obligations. As much as internal employees want to earn referral bonuses, they just don’t have anyone they can introduce!#7. HR and Internal Recruitment have too much on their plate to hire effectively. HR and Internal recruitment are managing a whole slew of jobs and roles. Their focus is quantity not quality. Roles that are hard to fill (the type of jobs headhunters cover) will languish on the open market with zero applicants that fit the bill coming through.HR and internal recruitment will be busy filling the easier jobs. Since they go wide rather than deep into each market, they’ll only be able to complete recruitment for roles where candidates are more plentiful than roles available.Furthermore, recruitment is a small part of their job. They need to monitor internal initiatives, benefits, payroll, and people operations at their company. How in the world would they have time to recruit effectively?#8. Headhunters make too much money to work internally for a company to save them fees. The question arises, then why can’t companies just pay someone a fee to work internally as a headhunter? Headhunters enjoy their freedom! They work with too many clients and make too much money. They don’t want to limit themselves to work at a salaried role in-house under one employer*.*UNLESS they’re ready to take a step back from their career or are burned out or experience some life-altering event where they have to for personal reasons.#9. Headhunting and recruitment is extremely hard work. Very few people can do it well. Thus, due to the forces of supply and demand, headhunters are paid extremely well because so few of them actually succeed at it. The Pareto rule applies - the top 20% of headhunters have 80% of the market in their hands.Companies’ internal staff, whether it’s HR, internal recruitment or the hiring manager, are not well-versed in persuading people to make life altering decisions every minute of the day.Contrary to internal staff, professional headhunters have finesse in complicated sales negotiations and persuasion every minute of their day! The volume of career discussions a career headhunter has vastly outstrips any other job. Thus, when companies engage a competent and successful headhunter, they massively increase the probability and speed at which they can fill the role.Otherwise, the industry of recruitment wouldn’t exist. Market forces dictate an arbitrage opportunity at a high margin for the ability to connect crucial staff with employers.