Should the recruitment industry deploy tighter rules and regulations?

Who agrees the recruitment industry should be more tightly regulated?

Many times i see recruiters floating CV's without the consent of their candidates, or floating unsolicited CV's to recruitment line managers who then claim the CV's as their own.

I recently send a CV to a my client with my terms and conditions, as agreed from project sign off, they then came back to me and said they already know the candidate and thus i wouldn't get a fee, i clearly knew this was not the case, how do we regulate processes to avoid this and stop companies miss leading us? Who should be in charge of regulating the industry?

Also i feel that companies should be capped at how many recruiters they use at the one time, a limit of two at the most i believe otherwise we as recruiters are just "another CV in the mix" and thus our true use value is not seen. What do you think?

Regards

Theo Mark

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Comment by chandra bodapati on May 11, 2013 at 7:09pm: So you want a recruiting Union?

I am not sure why we are even talking about regulations in this industry - it is not going to happen anytime in the next few years. Learn to adopt and live with reality of the way things are now.

Whenever a company gave us a line that they already had the contact in their db; I simply stopped working with them as long as they had that rule. I used to tell them - I know how to all 100M+ potential prospects in my db & doesn't mean anything. I used to have phone books with every person and contact information, and it doesn't mean much. The value we are creating is telling them which of them is the right fit - and that requires understanding of the industry & researching talent besides anything else.

If you feel someone is unfair, just stop working with them.
We don't need another union & the nonsense overhead related to that.