Recruiting from a client. Clients place their trust and faith in consulting firms to provide top-quality consultants and service. Recruiting people who are employed by clients is a violation of the client's trust and a breach of professionalism. Recruiting a consultant from a competing firm that is assigned at a client site. As with the previous example, recruiting in this manner betrays a client's trust and is a complete breach of professionalism.
Most clients use more than one consulting firm to meet their various needs.
Taking advantage of this access to other firms and their consultants is completely inappropriate and undermines the client's successful completion of projects and ability to meet deadlines. Talking a client or current or potential consultant into a specific course of action. The best way to approach both clients and current or potential consultants is to provide all relevant information up front and let them make the decision. Any decision made under pressure from a consulting firm may not be a true reflection of the decision-maker's actual preference in relation to his or her needs. By the same token, it is inappropriate to try to rush someone into making a decision.