Let me share with you a few of the darker sides of this type of Back Door Hire:
1. Sometimes when they tell you they paid another recruiter, they are lying and there was never another recruiter.
2. We have seen on a few occasions where the HR manager takes your candidate's resume you sent over, and they forward to another recruiter they have worked with for years. In a few cases, we have uncovered that the HR manager was receiving a cash kickback from another recruiter. This type of Backdoor Hire does not happen often, but it does happen from time to time.
