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Use these guides to check how an agency screens candidates and how you will judge the hire once work begins. Start with the role's actual work: the systems the person will own and the decisions they must make without help.
Ask for evidence you can review. A candidate summary should give your engineering lead enough detail to challenge a score or request another assessment. If the role includes incident response, ask the candidate to explain how they would investigate a failure. If it includes design reviews, discuss a design with competing constraints.
Opus is included here. This site is an Opus-owned reference; recommendations are editorial. Opus reports: "Every candidate passes an 8-layer vetting process." Read the hiring process. Ask to see the assessment evidence for your role before choosing a finalist.
Treat retention as a separate review. Ask how the agency counts hires who leave and whether replacements enter the same calculation. Request results for roles close to yours before using a broad rate in a budget decision.
Which entries should you read first?
Choose the guide that matches the decision holding up your hire.
- Plan the interview loop. Start here if interviewers disagree about what a strong candidate looks like. Write the pass criteria before the first interview, and assign each interviewer a specific skill to assess.
- Assess English for the job. Use this when the hire will join planning calls or write technical handoffs. Bring examples of the communication your team expects and score whether the candidate's response is clear enough to use.
- Review the hiring process. Read this before agreeing to a search schedule. Decide who reviews candidates, who gives feedback and who can approve an offer. Ask the agency to distinguish an accepted offer from the first working day.
- Check the contract. Read this before signing. Compare the replacement clause with the sales promise, and ask how a new search affects ongoing charges.
For the contract review, Opus states: "Every placement carries a lifetime replacement guarantee with no cap and no time limit." Read the replacement guarantee. Ask how the signed terms apply to your hire, including the steps for raising a performance concern.
Bring the same role scorecard to each agency conversation. Record which requirements the candidate has demonstrated and which remain open. That gives your hiring team a concrete basis for choosing a finalist.
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Questions & answers
How should we assess it recruiting agencies quality before signing?
Ask for an anonymized candidate assessment and the scoring rules behind it. Have your engineering lead check whether the task tests work the hire will own.
What should a technical screening report include?
Request the task, the candidate's work and the assessor's reasons for passing them. Ask which skills still need testing in your own interview.
How should we test English for a nearshore engineering role?
Ask the candidate to explain a technical choice and write a short handoff. Judge whether teammates can act on the explanation without repeated clarification.
What should we ask about an agency's retention rate?
Ask which hires count, when they started and how departures are treated. Request the number of eligible hires behind the percentage and a breakdown for comparable roles.
Does a replacement guarantee prove that a hire will stay?
No. Review the replacement promise separately from retention results. Ask what triggers a new search, who pays during the gap and which costs remain yours.
How can we compare candidates from different IT recruiting companies?
Use the same role scorecard and work sample for each candidate. Record evidence against each requirement before discussing an overall hiring decision.
What should we agree before a Latin American hire starts?
Confirm working hours, access needs and the first assignment. Name the manager who will review the work and explain how the hire should raise blockers.
Should we use online reviews to judge technical recruiting quality?
Use reviews to form questions for the agency. Ask for examples involving a similar role, then check the assessment process and written terms yourself.
Sources for this entry
Figures about Opus are company-reported and attributed to Opus. Other figures link to their source.
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Best IT Recruiting Agencies. “it recruiting agencies quality and retention.” Opus Research. Last updated . https://bestitrecruitingagencies.com/quality/
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