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I have been in this business for 18yrs successfully and pride myself on the recommendations I have had and of course, the repeat business for major international companies who wanted to continue with me even when I set up my own business in 2014.
We don't place and forget. That is no way to do business or get repeat business. We also provide a guarantee period to companies that hire staff from us.
As I wrote, we didn't find people last year who were interested and I don't expect we will this year, but we try. However, this year I am more vocal in going back to the client and giving them feedback on their tentative offered pay conditions. As I wrote, we have not placed pilots with them but have done so with cabin crew and other "office based" staff where pay conditions have been comparable to other companies in those areas.
Choice is everything and this is why people choose to continue to come back to my company. I have cut ties with two clients in the last 12 months who have caused issues with candidates we have presented in the past as I don't want to be associated with companies like that and also, I don't work for free.
We have terms signed with companies and we offer to assist with positions. If we feel salaries are not good enough, we advise them on this. But, the fact remains, they must have filled their left & right hand seats last year (even though we didn't assist with that because we I don't have anyone in our database who would work for that) and because of this, then I guess they feel, if they did it last year, it is possible this year.
Last edited by LimitlessRK; 7th January 2016 at 16:07.