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by RogerL
4633 days ago
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Zero. They are hard to find, but there are good recruiters that already do all that for free. That you charge for it does not automatically put you in the 'good recruiter' category :) If I was a consultant probably my answer would change - I hate the job search, and if you could keep the work coming in it might be worth it. But, you would have to have better resources and charge less than just signing up with a consulting shop would provide. Realistically, for you to be my "agent" you really need to take the time to get to know me. I've had a few recruiters do that, but they pretty much worked for the financial HFT companies that have obscene amounts of cash to throw at hiring (where 250K is a modest baseline salary). I have trouble thinking that you can afford the amount of time and work that it would take for you to represent me better than I can represent myself. I'm in the valley, I have friends, I can go to meetups if I want to network in a tech area, I can read reviews on glassdoor, and I can let my cell phone go to voice mail. That seems to cover most of what you offer, for free. The rest I can get from other recruiters, for free. |
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One of the main reasons why mediocre recruiters don't get to know the candidate is that they are completely focused on the job to fill. They need to know you only as much as it would take them to sell it to you.
An agent would get paid no matter what company he ends up placing you at, so there is a much higher incentive to understand what you really want to do.
I also think there is a lack of objective information on how a company is doing. They pump out information on how they are "crushing it" and how everything is going great. And Glassdoor is usually filled with bitter employees with an ax to grind. So some thorough checking through backchannels would be incredibly helpful. Not to say you couldn't do it, but as a recruiter I have never seen a candidate do it.