[vosper]

I completely agree that technical recruiting is open to disruption, and I hope that it soon will be, however: given the fees that barely technical recruiters extract now, what hope is there for a truly talented, highly technical recruiter who needs to get paid at least what (s)he could make in a technical role (120k minimum)

[l3amm]

Sadly, I think this is right. I know several recruiters at a big-name recruiting agency in Silicon Valley, they try to act like an internal recruiter (thorough vetting of candidates, understanding company culture, etc) and they make much less money than if they had just adopted the pay and spray mentality of their peers.

The bright hope for me is darwinian: if enough startups refuse to use these pay and sprayers then they will die off, leaving only the higher quality recruiters. Will that happen? Not any time soon.