re: Anyone had good experience with recruiters?

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This is interesting. So it's not a % of my pay check or anything?

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Recruiters are hired by hiring companies. For instance my company signs agreements with recruiting firms. If they bring us a candidate and that person stays over an agreed amount of time we give them x% of their salary. So if we hire a candidate for $80k per year and that person stays for a year we end up paying the recruiter somewhere between $10-20k. Most of the time the recruits never know this happened. And the additional money doesn't matter with HR employee salary negotiations. It's just a cost of doing business.

Recruiters have their good points and bad points. On the good, they usually have relationships with the company and can facilitate you getting the interview. On the bad, sometimes they match up requirements wrong and waste a bunch of time. Mostly because hot 25 year old female recruiters typically don't know jack about all the technical buzz words we hire for.

I would use them if looking for a job. I'd also use zip recruiter, linkedin and every other method at my disposal to find a job.