Hi Friends,

I am looking for a term used in HR. My ex-employees, now working with another company, are referring our employees. They are enticing our people with lucrative offers to join them.

I want to know what this concept is called, like pulling employees from their previous companies. It may be referred to as employee referral from their perspective, but what should I call this concept?

Thank you.

From India, Mumbai

Hi Friends,

I am looking for a term that is used in HR. My ex-employees who are now working with some other company are giving referrals of our employees. That means they are taking our people and showing them lucrative offers to work with them. I want to know what this concept is called, like pulling employees from their previous companies.

It may be called an employee referral from their point of view, but what will I call this concept?

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From India, Mumbai

hi i cant say about the concept how it called....but its may goes off injustice....might b...v cant say apparently but it differs from individual to individual.......
From India, Madras

It's called 'poaching', i.e., when one company specifically targets the employees of another company.

A lot of companies also get into tie-ups with their competitors to stop this practice. Such tie-ups are called 'anti-poaching agreements'.

From India, New Delhi

Neha rightly said it’s called "Poaching" means one company are hire the employee of another company which is skillful and talented. it mostly happen with the competitor firm.
From India, Pune

You are right Derek-Dgomes, we call it EMPLOYEE POACHING.

Hi, First, you need to know what this is and how this system works...

Here we go...

As most human resource professionals know, the best job candidates usually are those with several years of work experience and sound basic skills&mdash;preferably acquired while on the job. But people don't enter the workforce magically possessing the experience and job skills that employers want.

Because employers know that the best-qualified applicants will come directly from competitors, recruiting and hiring employees away from the competition becomes a necessity in an ultra-tight labor market. And necessity is the mother of inventive and sometimes controversial business practices.

Recruiting and hiring from your competitors is probably as old as business itself. But what is new&mdash;and a hot topic among employers&mdash;is how to attract and retain qualified candidates in a highly competitive labor market while also preventing their intellectual capital from winding up in the hands of competitors.

"Within a free-market economy such as ours, there exists the privilege to compete, and just about everything and everyone is fair game when you have a level playing field,"

"When a company receives an unfair advantage or what is perceived to be an advantage over their competitors, there [are] certain remedies such as non-compete and confidentiality agreements that do work to some extent."

The highly competitive market for talent means more employers are using non-compete or nondisclosure agreements, which in turn has created a tense atmosphere among competing employers where litigation has become more common.

I have enclosed a document on "5 Things to Do When Your Competitor Hires Your Employees."

Hope you got my point, and if you have any more questions, please feel free to ask.

From India, Gurgaon
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From India, Pune

Hello!

You can call this as "HR TOUTING". This is because your ex-employee is interested in referring your present employees, and he may be rewarded by the other company. The employees who get new placements may also pay him something in return. Therefore, your ex-employee is a tout; this term is used in the legal field as well.

Dr. Vasudeva Reddy

From India, Hyderabad

Hello, friend,

The concept you're referring to here is called headhunting or poaching. These techniques are typically used when a company wants to recruit a specific professional from the target company they are interested in. Sometimes, they also make cold calls to gather information about the particular individual before proceeding.

Good day! Happy learning!

Saran



Hi Dear, It is known as "Emloyee Poaching" To Check this process make an Inter company hr’s association and make an poaching agrrement among you to stop this process. Regards Ashis
From India, Mumbai

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