There's an obvious distortion that makes bad recruiters overrepresented: good positions in good companies tend to be filled immediately, typically through perso

There's an obvious distortion that makes bad recruiters overrepresented: good positions in good companies tend to be filled immediately, typically through personal contacts and headhunters without posting ads, while mediocre positions require a serious recruitment effort (with mediocre recruiters, mediocre job postings and mediocre candidates) and really unreasonable morons need to shout very long and very loudly to select suckers.