Recruiting is a huge industry. They are obviously not all bad or useless. Most small companies simply cannot afford to employ a full-time in-house recruiter. I

Recruiting is a huge industry. They are obviously not all bad or useless. Most small companies simply cannot afford to employ a full-time in-house recruiter. If you were running a startup, with a thousand things to do daily, you too would outsource the basic search and screening function.