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something else about recruitment agencies
I was flipping between several recruitment sites today looking for a new job, and even within sites I found it trivially easy to correlate the same job across separate agencies. Even better, at least one job I was able to correlate to the unnamed employer; this is a bonus, because if I go to them direct I don't have to deal with an agency, and they don't have to give 5%-10% of my salary to an agency, and we all win, except the agencies, who I couldn't care less about.
But the point was, what most of these agencies seem to do is just take the jobspec handed to them by a company and put it verbatim onto any number of jobsites. The only editing I saw in these cloned specs was actually detrimental; loss of formatting leading to an unreadable spec, typos (what? did someone retype this?) and a predilection in one particular agency for applying colours and fonts on what can best be described as "a completely random basis". These people are supposed to somehow add value; to the employer by getting word out that there are jobs going, and to the employee by matching skillsets with available jobs. Realistically speaking, because of the comission aspect, these people are simply doing - as best I can tell - as little work as they can conceivably get away with. I don't mean to suggest they're slacking; I'm sure it's soaking up a lot of someone's time to keep spamming the jobsites with the same job description over and over again (one particular company appeared to be advertising each vacancy at least three times on one of the jobsites) but I have some difficulty in believing that this activity is of sufficient benefit to, well, at least the Brand Name companies like Google who are probably fending off scads of applications even when they're not hiring. And yet these agencies still exist. Maybe I should give up on this whole geekery lark and set up Waider's Employment Agency instead.
But the point was, what most of these agencies seem to do is just take the jobspec handed to them by a company and put it verbatim onto any number of jobsites. The only editing I saw in these cloned specs was actually detrimental; loss of formatting leading to an unreadable spec, typos (what? did someone retype this?) and a predilection in one particular agency for applying colours and fonts on what can best be described as "a completely random basis". These people are supposed to somehow add value; to the employer by getting word out that there are jobs going, and to the employee by matching skillsets with available jobs. Realistically speaking, because of the comission aspect, these people are simply doing - as best I can tell - as little work as they can conceivably get away with. I don't mean to suggest they're slacking; I'm sure it's soaking up a lot of someone's time to keep spamming the jobsites with the same job description over and over again (one particular company appeared to be advertising each vacancy at least three times on one of the jobsites) but I have some difficulty in believing that this activity is of sufficient benefit to, well, at least the Brand Name companies like Google who are probably fending off scads of applications even when they're not hiring. And yet these agencies still exist. Maybe I should give up on this whole geekery lark and set up Waider's Employment Agency instead.
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The problem is that some firms look for people exclusively through one or two headhunters.
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