Hiring companies who multi-list their job vacancies with several recruitment agencies are shooting themselves in the foot; really hard. Dumb and dumber comes to mind.
There are three reasons why hiring companies multi-list their job orders and expect recruitment agencies to fight it out over the very same job vacancy. If the hiring managers just knew, this madness would end sooner rather than later.
The irony of this mad circus is unfortunately not favouring hiring managers and their companies. Rather than getting full commitment when they get recruitment agencies to compete, they really get a lot less attention and service.