There will always be a need for recruiters. Recruiters know how to identify and find talent for roles that require exceptional talent. A great recruiter has interviewed, assessed and researched thousands of people in that niche, and knows who the highly talented people are. They also know how to properly present candidate submissions to not only their client/hiring manager, but a trading partner.

In a recruiting network, one of the common complaints is receiving candidate resumes from another recruiter without any value-added. Recruiters receive hundreds of emails, and if you just blast them with a resume and no details/write-up/personal comment, they may think you may have just grabbed a resume off Monster or Indeed and don’t “deserve” to collect half a fee… so they won’t bother looking at the candidate or working with you.  Read the rest of this entry »