> How do you know if you have a good [recruiter]? If they've been a third party recruiter for more than 3 years, they're probably bad. The good ones typically become recruiters are large companies.
That's ... that's not at all how that works.
That's ... that's not at all how that works.
OTOH, my experience with same-company recruiters was that they merely existed to act as a simple filter and PR person. They didn't invest anything in me (the candidate) nor really examine if I was a good fit before I got passed further on up the chain.
Now that I really think about it, the quoted advice is pretty much a mirror opposite to my experience.
In-house recruiters tend to be one of:
* HR professionals who do some recruitment as part of their job
* A surprising number of people who end up taking on some recruitment responsibilities as part of their secretarial or admin work, and then end up doing it full-time
* Agency recruiters who didn't enjoy or could cut it being agency recruiters
I know a small number of excellent internal recruiters, but they're really the exception not the rule.