[lsiebert]

I just deleted and rewrote this to be clearer, before posting.

Companies want the best candidate for a job. Recruiters want a candidate that looks good enough for the job. That's the company's complaint, that the goals aren't aligned.

Similarly, a prospective employee wants a job they are good enough for, but recruiters want a prospective employee that looks good enough for the job. Candidates who are good enough, but who don't look good enough, are lost.

Those are basically the two big problems in recruiting. Of course the very idea of recruiting has it's own issues.