I'm sorry I just thought it would be a nice ironic twist -- recruiters hiring other recruiters has to be like a matter meeting anti-matter. In all seriousness,

I'm sorry I just thought it would be a nice ironic twist -- recruiters hiring other recruiters has to be like a matter meeting anti-matter. In all seriousness, it all comes back to the client. Having been a hiring manager, one of the things that frustrates me is that HR departments have so little bandwidth to do the one thing that's truly important (hiring) that they have no choice but to treat it like a retail shopping experience: hiring 3-5 recruiters, post it to the job boards and hope a qualified candidate shows up. And then by contrast you see the companies that work at it - they host meetups, they sponsor conferences and they go out of their way to create conversations between hiring managers and people who aren't even looking.