You are right about the long term relationship needs to be a two way street. Tangentially, not all recruiters are as good as you. Over 90% of the recruiter ca

You are right about the long term relationship needs to be a two way street. Tangentially, not all recruiters are as good as you. Over 90% of the recruiter calls I get are from middle eastern/Indian/Pakistan native-speaking people that work for recruiting companies that are basically spam calling every Tom, Dick, and Harry. Minor issues with that, but more importantly they are another [unnecessary] layer. For instance, Tata Consulting, a very large Indian-based company, is looking for a SharePoint consultant to work full-time FTE for them...I got a call from a recruiter that was basically the fourth middleman in the transaction...his company was to be paid $x%, the company that brought his company in was supposed to get $x%, and so forth...all promised to be paid from my work. Fee-splitting should be banned if it is more than two layers between hiring company and contractor. Further, these types of companies have no direct relationship with the end client so there are multiple translation layers (opportunities for mistakes) before my resume gets in front of the client, if it does at all. Also, I typically don't contract with out-of-state third party recruiters due to laws and jurisdiction (company must/should have nexus in the state the work is performed in). In my humble experience, the real issue is some/most internal HR folks need to be trained on technology and how not to pass on a resume that doesn't have a keyword they don't understand even though it is included in another keyword they don't understand (looking for someone that has javascript experience but passed because Node.js and jQuery were listed more times than javascript). Hiring/finding contractors is broken, but it doesn't have to be.