In my experience recruiters try to provide what the market, via hiring managers, wants, but the hiring manager, collectively, is a fickle entity. "Ninja," "Roc

In my experience recruiters try to provide what the market, via hiring managers, wants, but the hiring manager, collectively, is a fickle entity. "Ninja," "Rockstar," "A-player." You can't expect to interest those people in middling jobs from mediocre employers. Fix hiring expectations and you will have gone a long way toward solving the hiring "problem."