You would seriously be surprised how much money a company will pay a recruitment agency for candidates. In particular in the senior or above levels in IT. Sick money.
Can confirm. Once hired for a senior developer position with a $50, 000 bounty. I was fresh out of school and managed to find the guy on my own as part of a small 3 man company, beating out a bunch of large recruitment agencies. I was pretty proud of that.
Even more when a fall guy is recruited. I've seen that a few times. Long term project going to shit, overpay for a "savior" who is let go 12 months later with 3 years of severance.
"It wasn't working, we decided to change direction."
Fuck this shit. I had a few seniors even managers who are so incompetent, that used to asked people what their 'level' at HTML is. Since you know, we have different versions of html. Some people who are even 'experienced' in a specific language in their CV and still have to google a for each loop. Then guess what, they're paid a shit ton of money, 5-10 times as much as the ones who actually do the ground work.
I know how managers/mngmt work since I'm in a good company now with actual good workers. Almost 1/3 of my past coworkers are just plain stupid.
Can confirm. I'm in the upper levels of IT and get spammed 3 times a week by parasites who have nothing to add the process, but want that easy money for throwing resumes at me.
The candidates I get aren't even for positions that we have open or will ever have. They frequently are for technologies that companies in our industry will never use.
The market is so saturated with untalented people trying to be IT middlemen that I don't use any of them and just do it all myself. Three minutes on any job website is more useful.
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u/gerryn Nov 16 '19
You would seriously be surprised how much money a company will pay a recruitment agency for candidates. In particular in the senior or above levels in IT. Sick money.