Candidates – Your Questions Answered

To us, the 'Recruitment Firm' is the company that connects you with an employer who is hiring for a position, so an intermediary in the hiring process. Your experience could have been with a Recruitment Agency, a Recruitment Consultancy, a Headhunter or an Executive Search Firm.

Don't worry, rating is anonymous. You do have the option to use your real name or a unique username if you are comfortable with that.

We want you to be able to post a review safe in the knowledge that there will be no repercussions on your job search. If, at any time though, you feel as if you are being treated differently by a Recruitment Firm after you've posted a review on our site then please contact us in the first instance and we will investigate immediately.

Just share your story. We want to hear it and others will too. Keep it real, keep it clean, and keep it true. This is your experience; it may have been good or bad or something in-between. Describe what happened, what made it good or bad, and don't forget how it made you feel, and what you think could have been done better. By sharing, you'll be helping other candidates make their own decisions about who to work with, whatever the Recruitment Firm, be it a Recruitment Agency, Consultancy, Headhunter or Executive Search Firm. Remember, your story is valuable to others!

There is a robust validation process that sits behind every review submission. All reviews are read, checked for bad language, discriminatory language and anything that could end up in court. Protection for everyone is our mantra! We also pride ourselves on all our reviews being real. So, there may be certain instances where we want to check the review is genuine and reflects an actual situation.

Our key shout-out are: Don't make anything up, don't write a review for someone else, and don't try and diss a recruiter or company because you're a competitor – we will find out!

Mainly, anything that's bad: libellous, defamatory, discriminatory, or just plain rude language. Our aim at RecruiterRater is to provide a place for you to share your experience and highlight the good and the bad aspects of your recruitment journey. We want to improve the candidate experience and ultimately raise the bar in recruitment. This is a balancing act for us though, as we also have responsibilities to our Recruitment Firms. If a reviewer is using words or statements that are likely to cause serious harm to a Company's brand, then we have a responsibility to investigate. This may result in a review not being published or the reviewer being asked to re-write their review. Be assured that we will always contact you first before we make any big decisions about the review that you've provided.

We're here so you can have a voice, however we are not here to get involved in disputes or to act as moderators.

Your review will be public for all to see. Your privacy and safety is hugely important to us, and this works both ways, the privacy of others needs to be respected and protected too.

We hope that you enjoy, respect and value our site, we set it up for you!! If you have any questions or concerns, or just want some more information then please let us know.

Also, if you have any feedback on the site or ideas about what would be useful for you, how things could be easier or look better, then just get in touch. We want this platform to be meaningful, your voice, your story and what's important to you, is important to us!