I once had a recruiter from Texas call me about a position local to me (I’m in New England) who couldn’t tell me much of anything about the position. “They didn

I once had a recruiter from Texas call me about a position local to me (I’m in New England) who couldn’t tell me much of anything about the position. “They didn’t tell me” is what he said, referring to his employers. The same day, a “good” recruiter I’d worked with in the past, called me about the same position. “I wish you had called earlier” I told him. The knows-nothing recruiter had already set me up with a phone screen interview for later that day. When the “good” recruiter learned that the knows-nothing recruiter hadn’t been able to prepare me for the interview, he told me all about the position and the manager, preparing me for my upcoming phone screen. Yes, he tried to help me get a job that, not only wouldn’t have earned him a commission, I would have been competing with his own candidates. My impression is that recruiters in my area, work with companies in my area. My experience with recruiters calling from thousands of miles away, was that they didn’t seem to have a knowledge of local companies.