I was on the hiring side before I had my first encounter with a recruiter. They're worthless. Floods of bad candidates, almost never anything worth pursuing. Pr

I was on the hiring side before I had my first encounter with a recruiter. They're worthless. Floods of bad candidates, almost never anything worth pursuing. Promising candidates come almost exclusively through some form of contact that bypasses any form of in-house or external recruiter. Being-hired experience is the exact mirror: Contacted constantly about positions utterly unsuited for me, and good matches only produce interviews if the recruiters are bypassed. Recruiters have negative value. They are parasites.