Anthony at Recruiting.com talks about retained/contingency candidate researchers who are assigned by your company to "identify potential candidates at other companies and may do reference and background checks."
This sounds like a great option for companies who need extra recruiting assistance, but have enough internal resources and don't want to outsource or retain a full-blown recruiter or agency.
As with much of the outsourced recruiting industry, this makes the most sense for companies who already know what they want to achieve, and then outsourcing the more mundane parts of the task makes a lot of sense--if your internal recruiter is amazing with interviews and salary negotiations, etc, but loses productivity when inundated with thousands of resumes to file through--or when the talent you need is latent and happily employed elsewhere--this solution plays off your strengths and minimizes your weaknesses.
Sounds like "Recruiting No-Brainer 101" to me.
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