For employers
Stop recruiters poaching your staff
Your recruitment partners promise not to touch your people. Bycatch turns that promise into a system, flagging your employees as off-limits directly on LinkedIn, where the approach would happen.
Why good intentions aren't enough
Most staff poaching by trusted agencies isn't malicious. It's a process failure.
Non-solicitation clauses only work after the damage is done
A clause in your agency agreement gives you recourse once someone has already been approached, or already left. It doesn’t stop the message being sent in the first place.
Off-limits spreadsheets get forgotten
Most agencies genuinely intend to respect your off-limits status. But when the list lives in a spreadsheet nobody checks mid-search, mistakes happen, and it’s your team that gets headhunted.
One accidental approach can sour a good relationship
When an agency you pay approaches your own staff, trust evaporates. Both sides lose, and it was almost always an accident of bad tooling, not bad faith.
The backstop
How Bycatch protects your people
Ask your agencies to add you in Bycatch
Any agency using Bycatch can mark your company as off-limits in one click. From that moment, every recruiter on their team sees a warning flag on your employees’ LinkedIn profiles.
Protection at the point of contact
The flag appears exactly where the approach would happen: on LinkedIn and LinkedIn Recruiter, before any message is sent. It’s a backstop that works even when the spreadsheet is forgotten.
Make it part of your agency agreements
Alongside your non-solicitation clause, ask recruitment partners to enforce your off-limits status with software. Agencies that use Bycatch can demonstrate, rather than just promise, that your people are protected.
FAQ
Employer questions
How software-enforced off-limits protection fits alongside your agency agreements.
Can I install Bycatch to protect my company directly?
Bycatch is installed by recruitment teams, so the protection comes from your recruitment partners using it. The most effective step is to make software-enforced off-limits protection a condition of working with your agencies, and to point them to Bycatch. If you also run an internal talent team, you can use Bycatch yourselves to respect non-solicitation agreements with your own customers and partners.
How is this different from a non-solicitation agreement?
A non-solicitation agreement is a legal remedy after the fact. Bycatch is a practical control that prevents the approach happening at all: recruiters see a flag on your employees’ profiles before they send a message. The two work best together.
How do I know if my agencies would use it?
Agencies have a strong incentive: accidentally poaching from a client is one of the fastest ways to lose that client. Bycatch costs from £30/month for a team, takes minutes to set up, and lets them show clients their off-limits list is systematically enforced.
Does this stop all poaching of my staff?
No tool can stop every approach. Recruiters who have never worked with you have no obligation to hold back. Bycatch closes the most painful gap: being poached by the agencies you already pay and trust.
Make off-limits protection a condition, not a hope
Tell your recruitment partners about Bycatch, or get in touch and we'll help you introduce it to your agencies.
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