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Do recruiters not exist these days? The last time I looked for a job, which was pre-pandemic, a recruiter took care of finding suitable jobs for me and I barely had to lift a finger, just do some interviews with good companies until I got a good offer. And they got paid a % of my accepted final salary.

Is this model now completely broken? If I was looking for a tech job again I doubt I’d fill out hundreds or a thousand of applications myself, I’d rather just pay someone thousands of dollars to do that grunt work and I just show up for interviews.

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I always tried to find that model, but it never worked for me. The recruiters always seemed to be filling a handful of roles that I was a poor fit for, or just treating the role like a sales job.

yes, ideally you try reaching out to people in similar positions like you ( PM to PM ) - best effect and customize CVs as well

I generally assume that anybody who asks for money and promises a job down the line is a scammer. Maybe I should rethink that assumption?

I'm at least unaware of any recent successes with the recruiter approach. (That is, recruiters who don't work for the company that does the interviewing.)

Recruiters don't ask for any money from the candidate, they get paid by the hiring company.

exactly

These recruiters do exist. They are difficult to find, they are rare, and there seems to be fewer of them but they do exist.

I wouldn't say you don't have to lift a finger and they do all the work for you, but some of them do seem to have backdoor entry to the companies and their applicants will be preferred. Not to mention that some companies only hire this way (through vendors, not sifting through thousands of applications on the LinkedIn or Indeed).

nobody will ask for money, they already get paid 10-20k for providing a candidate. heck you can just -refer- friends to companies and get a 10-20k referral.

paying to get a job is 100% a scam

we exist! I'm working on a semi-productized candidate-side recruiting company right now. I think the gap with current market conditions, that this product could help address, is if you're a new grad. It's just really, really hard to land a job with no experience right now and there are definitely no referral fees (so no candidate-side recruiters to help you with intros).

yep mate, take a look at JDs on Linkedin - 100 + applications. there's no way you can "prepare manually" for submitting documents.

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