Recruiters can give you a pipeline of candidates, pretty much immediately. As head of your team you can then spend your time sifting through resumes and intervi

Recruiters can give you a pipeline of candidates, pretty much immediately. As head of your team you can then spend your time sifting through resumes and interviewing instead of trying to do everything yourself. This works best when you can write a good description, and discuss your needs with the recruiter. Most companies will use a few different agencies as they find which ones bring in better candidates. Recruiting companies vary in competency. There are senior-level recruiters that are former engineers. If you get one, keep him or her. There are experienced recruiters that can roughly gauge whether you would be a good fit. Then there are pure sales types where you're just a product. All can be successful. All will have different types of networks and work with different companies.