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I think there is a fundamental incentives problem in hiring - employers don't have a strong incentive to treat candidates well, because either they won't need to hire again soon, or they will be trying to hire someone who really wants a job who will forgive them for bad treatment. It's a good argument for moving to a recruiter model - companies have a stronger incentive to treat recruiting companies well if they want to keep having top talent referred to them. (This idea is spelled out in this post from a while back: http://blog.hireart.com/is-it-time-to-centralize-hiring/)