What is Rec2Rec?
Rec2Rec — short for "recruiter to recruiter" — is the practice of recruiting recruiters. Rather than placing candidates into ordinary companies, a Rec2Rec consultant places recruiters, resourcers, and search consultants into the staffing agencies, RPOs and executive search boutiques where they'll build their own desks.
It's a distinct discipline from general in-house Recruiting & Talent Acquisition search: the candidate pool, the incentive structures, and the hiring managers are all inside the recruitment industry itself.
Who we place
- Desk-to-desk moves between staffing agencies
- Billing consultants and team leads
- Agency leadership and branch manager roles
- Local branch leadership roles
- Regional Director roles
- Global Managing Director and P&L leadership roles
- RPO and search-boutique consultants
How a Rec2Rec search works
Because Vantage's own consultants came up through Rec2Rec-style placement themselves, we work from inside the industry rather than outside it — most candidates come from our own network rather than cold outreach.
Rec2Rec desks are active across the United States, UK & Ireland, Benelux, France and DACH.
Rec2Rec vs. Recruiting & Talent Acquisition
If you're hiring recruiters for your own agency, you want Rec2Rec. If you're building an internal talent acquisition function inside a non-recruiting company, you want Recruiting & Talent Acquisition instead.
Engagement models
We run this practice under two engagement models: retained search for senior, exclusive mandates; and contingency search for faster, pay-on-placement hires. Unlike our Recruiting & Talent Acquisition practice, Rec2Rec has no interim / fractional model — no staffing agency hires a recruiter on an interim basis.
Industries
Rec2Rec serves the recruiting and headhunting industry itself — see all industries we work across, including our in-house Talent Acquisition coverage.