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The agency recruiter is paid when you are hired, so keeping you warm is part of the job. The internal recruiter is waiting on people they do not control, and is not allowed to say much in the meantime.

On a permanent role your agency earns a percentage of your salary. On a contract it often earns the gap between the client's budget and your rate.

In most cases the agency that got your CV to the client first owns you for that role, and the second submission is turned away.

Usually for one of two reasons, and the request looks identical either way: evidence to strengthen your application, or the names of managers an agency can call about hiring.

A keyword-heavy CV passes the ATS and still loses the person reading it, because it hides what you actually specialise in.

Online salary ranges blend countries, company sizes and industries into one number. Here is why the top end misleads, and how to set your number instead.

A recruiter reviewing your video submission is checking three things: that you are the real person behind the application, that the knowledge in your answer is your own, and that your spoken language fits what the role needs. Camera quality is almost never one of them. The content and the delivery decide it, not the resolution. And most candidates put their effort into exactly the wrong part. Why do companies ask for a video at all? The first reason is security. A video confi

Ask them, but ask them earlier. A question raised at offer stage very rarely gets an offer pulled, and I want to say that plainly because the internet suggests otherwise. What it does instead is quieter and more expensive: it reopens a decision the employer had already closed. What follows is not a discussion about your question. It is a discussion about you. What happens after your email lands? A late request does not sit with one person. It travels: recruiter to HR, HR to t

Sometimes you were not rejected at all. The role was shut down, filled by someone already inside the business, frozen when a budget was cut, overtaken by a more urgent hire, or left waiting on an approval that never arrived. You still receive something that looks exactly like a rejection, because that is the easiest message to send. So how do you tell the difference between "we chose someone else" and "there was never going to be anyone"? Mostly you cannot. That is the part w