[dozzie]

> I don't dislike recruiters at all.

In principle, I agree. Execution is vastly different, though. Recruiters I've met up to now are mostly bunch of people not understanding the thing they recruit for in the slightest, so they just move documents from pile A to pile B, rejecting them at random in the process.

I met a few recruiters that understood the industry they operated on. They just were outliers, not the norm.

> They're making a living helping place people in jobs - that's a useful thing to do.

Wrong. Helping people land in a job is an unimportant side effect. They mainly help companies fill the roles with bodies. It's irrelevant if the candidate likes the role, is a good fit, and would grow professionally. The only part that is important is that the company finds the candidate competent enough, not the other way around.