Posts by Wilson Cole

At some point, every staffing and recruiting firm will have to deal with the trouble of tracking backdoor hires. For those who have not encountered the term yet, backdoor hires are the candidates that a client employs without the knowledge of their staffing or recruiting company. A client does so when they believe that they…

Wilson Cole, President of Adams, Evens, & Ross (AER) and AER General Counsel Samantha Cole review 6 clues your candidate has been backdoor hired. Page Content Clue #1 The first clue can be observed in what the candidate says. When prompted to take an assignment at a company, if they respond that they previously tried…

When it comes to debt, it can feel like a deep dark hole that you cannot climb out of. It is worse when you are in debt due to someone else not paying their part in time. As a recruitment company, you are extending a service to companies and they pay you for finding them…

In this case study, we are looking at dealing of candidates and back door hires. Wilson goes over his experiences with dealing with backdoor hires and how he has dealt with these problems in the past. This case hands-down takes the cake for one of the craziest excuses someone has given for not paying one…

There are 5 main things people get flat out wrong about recruitment placement fees. Most of the things people get wrong are before they even have a candidate get back door hired and have to go chasing down the money they have already earned. Number 1 is getting a contract signed. Number 2 is avoiding…

To start off with, I want to let you know that we’ve performed millions of searches and put in a lot of hours to observe these statistics. Page Content The first type of statistic The first type of statistic revolves around which industry is most likely to perform a BDH. The industry that is least…

Today Wilson Cole, President of Adams, Evens & Ross (AER), takes a few minutes to give information on back door hires (BDH). This is when a company hires one of your candidates or temporaries onto their payroll, leaving your staffing agency out of the loop.   There has been a large increase in this issue…

Hi, this is Wilson Cole, President of Adams, Evens & Ross (AER), and today I want to take a few minutes to discuss primary excuses that AER is given from hiring companies regarding back door hires (BDH). Easily the most popular is when a staffing company calls me to say that a hiring company gave…

Problems are abundant when it comes to the staffing and recruiting industry. They come in different shapes and forms and many of them can easily be spotted. However, there is one billion dollar problem that many recruiters didn’t even know they have. This is called back door hires. Everybody knows that backdoor hires happen but…

It’s shocking to know that many staffing and recruiting companies simply give up when it comes to trying to collect the debts of certain clients. These clients throw out a number of excuses that make the company doubt that they can get money off of the transaction. But there are a number of solutions that…