[kevinpet]

Someone out there needs to create a recruiter rating site. Whether I'm looking for a job or hiring, I need to know whether this jerk is actually providing good matches, or if he's just shopping around the resumes of the most desperate.

My proposed name: ratecruiter

[jraines]

I think this is a pretty great idea, but the main problem is it's going to be very mixed. I used to work for a recruiting firm. I wasn't there long enough for people in my market to form opinions of me (I think), but if you took one of the managing partners you'd get a pretty good number of people who would sing their praises for legitimately helping them make a big leap in their career, and an equal or probably greater number who'd just view them as a phone annoyance.

And if it caught on, you can bet the recruiters would have some lower level person on every team who'd be tasked with gaming the site.

[ig1]

I've thought about this before, and the ideal place to do it would be via a linkedin application. It would make it much harder to game and most recruiters are already on it.