I've done recruiting as part of my (data science) consultancy. Aka, I build out a solution for a customer, then staff it for them. My pipeline was a large pers

I've done recruiting as part of my (data science) consultancy. Aka, I build out a solution for a customer, then staff it for them. My pipeline was a large personal network, including several academics who pitched promising students at me, and a private forum where excellent examples of such people could be found. Though I have a bias in saying so, that worked reasonably well. Recruiters do have a principal agent problem that I didn't. Then again, hiring managers are often insane. "I want a world class DS guy for $90k a year" is not realistic.