I most certainly have had my share of frustration, but it has never been with bountyjobs it has been with end clients. Of course I have certainly had a good level of frustration with my own clients over the last year so take that for what you will.

No one should depend on bountyjobs as their sole placement source.

I’m a “recruiter” member on BountyJobs and have not had much luck with the site. Most criticize the recruiters, however I feel the problem is with the employers on the site and the lack of quality service on the part of BountyJobs in “managing” their employer accounts. Many employers have joined, posted open jobs, but fail to respond to engagement requests and many employers wait days or even weeks to even log back into the site. FYI… You can view each employers last login date on the site.

Also, some of the open job orders are a bit fishy… definitely some bait and switch going on, especially among the commission sales related positions. They post a bounty/fee but when you read the job information, they clearly state they are not going to pay the bounty and it’s purely based on what the candidate will bring in as far as sales revenue. Personally, networks like this are not appropriate for “commission only” jobs in which the employer is not going to pay the fee after the 90 day guarantee, especially if they have clearly posted a flat dollar amount and/or “bounty” on the job order.

A severe lack of quality control process on the part of BountyJobs.com to ensure that employers are respecting the marketplace thus the recruiters on the network are basically giving away their candidates and is complete waste of their time.

Also, when you join and once you are able to log-in, you will find a majority of the jobs “blocked” meaning, you cannot “engage” with the employer but you can send a “flier” aka unsolicited resume for a fee which runs around $20 or so per resume. I’m not a fan of sending or receiving unsolicited resumes and I’m surely not going to pay to do that!!

My personal experience with one employer:

They posted a job order, but they stated to send candidates to their website and have them reference the recruiters name, agency, and bountyjobs on the candidates cover letter, which they did. I understand that some employers need to run candidates through their own ATS or hiring pipeline. However, due to the 7 day period in which BountyJobs gives employers to engage with recruiters, I was automatically rejected. Since the employer had not logged into bounty jobs in over a week, therefore any engagement request over 7 days old was automatically rejected. Bounty jobs does not allow you to send messages to recruiters unless you are “engaged” with the recruiter therefore not even giving you the opportunity to work things out, etc…

I’ve sent them two candidates through their website and have yet to hear from the hiring manager and they still have not logged back into their BountyJobs.com account as of this blog posting date. Why bother even posting if your not going to actively engage in using the service?? BountyJobs.com needs to get better account managers if you ask me.

I think that BountyJobs.com needs to put more firm policies in place for employers to ensure the quality of the marketplace. They obviously let employers post jobs and go for weeks without logging in or communicating with recruiters.

In my opinion, stick to your current methods and work with clients directly as BountyJobs is destined for failure. Good concept, but you need a good internal team to make something like this successful. Something in which BountyJobs.com clearly lacks.

1. I dispise companyies that give kickbscks.
2. The recruiting industry should be the one that dictaes the commissions.

I can emphatically state that there has *never* been a situation where BountyJobs collected on a placement and then did not pay the headhunter who was entitled to the fee. Anyone who feels they did not receive their proper fee should reach out to us with the details at support@bountyjobs.com and we will happily investigate the matter.

Any business run by ignorant people with complete disregard for market reputation (in a “branding” economy) is a joke. Bountyjobs is a full on laugh! I wonder if the people pouring money into this pig realize they are a joke among clowns.

Dumbasses.