[sssantosha]

Finding people actually interested in changing jobs is challenging. I'd say it's probably one of the hardest parts of recruiting.

All the engineers at https://www.MightySpring.com (we're building an app that matches companies with job seekers) spent this week doing traditional agency recruiting to get a better sense of the problem. Recruiting really is a numbers game. Finding the right balance between personalization and efficiency - knowing that most emails get deleted immediately, unread, is hard. We don't envy the recruiters who do this all the time.

[InstajobMick]

This is exactly the reason I started https://instajob.biz I have had nothing but bad experiences with them (with the odd exception of course)

I am not sure what it is like in the rest of the world but in my experience, in the UK, they really don't give a damn about you: You are a number to them and they will say whatever they can to get you in the door.

I have a few friends that work in recruitment (or used to) and they paint a worse picture than that.

I do not trust them, nor do I know anyone that likes dealing with them.

[bliti]

The one thing that made me take my current job is the personal touch I was given. The person who contacted me was simply just being human, and not seeing me as just another number. That makes a difference.

[sssantosha]

Totally agree. And that's why we're taking the time to make it personal. But doing this has made me understand why so many recruiters just let everything slip into automatic.

[mamcx]

This is also for remote work?