Yes, the recruitment industry sucks. The author of this article works in the recruitment industry — which company, I do not know, but by association to the indu

Yes, the recruitment industry sucks. The author of this article works in the recruitment industry — which company, I do not know, but by association to the industry, the author also sucks. Let's face the facts. Huge sections of the working age population either unemployed or significantly underemployed. Dozens, if not hundreds, of applicants for every vacancy. Which recruiters win in this market? Those who spend lots of money on highly skilled staff who can woo potential candidates with their in-depth knowledge of the industry they are recruiting for when performing basic qualifying cold calls for relatively low-paid roles, or those who hire people for near-enough minimum wage to churn through a list of candidates, read from a script, and get the information you need to qualify them for vacancies? "But good heavens!" I hear you scream, as failsafe as the latter business plan sounds, the recruitment firm has left a bad taste in the mouth of the author! Who cares? I bet they found the perfect candidate for that vacancy that same day after a few more phone calls.