Yes, they do exist. My experience: They do tend to be lone wolves, happy to fill just 1-2 vacancies per month. 2 would be a good month, and cause them to slo

Yes, they do exist. My experience: They do tend to be lone wolves, happy to fill just 1-2 vacancies per month. 2 would be a good month, and cause them to slow down. They're often from the field they specialise in, and recruit at senior levels, as they've knocked up 10-20 years' experience in the field themselves, and anything lower in the chain would not be worth their time. How to get to know them? Know someone they know, that's the easiest way. For non-senior roles, as above: There are 2 problems: Finding: Actual souls that exist purporting some skill-set. Filtering: Who is actually competent at this skill-set. (Perhaps a third: Fit, but that's fuzzy) Finding: Go cheap. Let them trawl databases and send you 50 CVs per day, anything counts, because their judgement is not as good as yours. Filter: Takes less than 2 minutes to read a CV and put it in 'reject' or 'read more'.