Bilingual Source code of ethics
A promise to the employers we work with and to the people we place.
Once we place someone on your team, we will never try to hire them away for as long as they work for you.
If you have left a role we placed you in, we will welcome the conversation in a heartbeat.
Principle 2
“In recruitment, trust is not just nice to have. It’s your only sustainable competitive advantage.”
For employers
Your team’s best bilingual hire is often the one other companies want most. If the firm that found them can also take them away, you end up restarting the search, training a replacement, and stretching your team while the seat sits empty.
That will never happen with us. Once we place someone on your team, our recruiters will not approach them about another role for as long as they work for you, even when another client is hiring.
Candidates
While you are in the role we placed you in, we will not approach you about other opportunities. If you contact us, we will be honest and tell you we can’t help yet.
The only exception is with written consent from your direct manager or HR, if you are comfortable asking for it.
This promise works in your favour too. If you ever hire through us as a manager, the people we place on your team are protected in exactly the same way.
Candidates
If you have left that employer, for any reason, our door is open, and we will welcome the conversation in a heartbeat.
As with every candidate, our usual process applies, including reference checks.
When an employer is downsizing or restructuring, it can ask us to help the people affected.
We will only help someone we placed while they still work for that employer with the employer’s written authorization and the person’s consent.
Nothing happens behind anyone’s back.
Anything you share with us is kept confidential.
If someone we placed contacts us while still employed, their employer will not hear about it from us.
No. For as long as that person works for you, our recruiters will not approach them about another role.
No. Some agencies limit this kind of protection to a set number of years. Ours has no time limit. It lasts for as long as that person works for you, whether that is two years or twenty.
Yes. It is a firm-wide policy, not a promise from one recruiter.
You can ask us to help the people affected. We will only do so with your written authorization and each person’s consent.
Not while you are still in that role. The only exception is when your direct manager or HR gives written consent, and only if you are comfortable asking for it. Even then, whether we can help depends on the circumstances. Once you have left, for any reason, we are glad to talk. Our usual process applies, including reference checks.
The promise is the same no matter who makes the first call.
No. Your conversation with us stays confidential.
Questions? Write to info@bilingualsource.com.
Policy last updated November 2026
