Sorry for the mumsnet type post, but I am feeling rather hacked off.
* We are recruiting another lawyer to our department.
* I know someone who is suitable, made it known to the department and started email chat with the potential candidate, including sending over a job spec. They confirmed they were interested.
* A few days after I started this, the recruitment consultant we had engaged sent over some CVs, including the CV of the person I was already in contact with. I hadn’t yet obtained their CV.
* Apparently the candidate told the rec con that she was already in dicussions with someone about the role internally, but the rec con said he would send over her CV anyway.
My company is taking the view that it’s the CV which counts as the “referral”, meaning the rec con is going to be paid for referring someone I was already in discussions with AND I lose out on a pretty significant referral sum myself (which is what this is about really : )
Is this unfair or am I just being bitter? How can we pay a rec con for referring someone who was already in discussions with us?