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Many recruiters look at what they do in an extremely narrow perspective.
Competitive intelligence is the process of gathering valuable information about our firm's direct competitors including strategies, plans, practices, or people. Post exit interviews 3 - 6 months after a candidate resigns are also effective. In addition to learning about your competitors there is other valuable information you can gather. Summary If you are to be effective as a recruiter you need to do continuous market research and intelligence gathering in order to identify why people leave jobs or accept jobs. You don't have to be James Bond, to break any laws, or to invade someone's privacy to do effective CI in recruiting.