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> they see candidates as cattle

I think most candidates sense this and this is why they shy away from and react negatively to recruiters.

My last comment wasn't necessarily directed at you personally -- more wondering if the recruiting industry has locked itself into its own paradigm and whether anyone has done testing to see whether or not that actually is a valid paradigm.

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I understand I was just mentioning that people do try new things but the majority of managers and owners don't want to break a model that makes them serious coin, it will happen sooner or later but until then they will beat it to death.

The essence is that recruiters are salesmen, and sales and engineering have ever been at odds. We cannot do our jobs without the raw, steaming, unvarnished truth, and they cannot do theirs without polishing, perfuming, and airbrushing the product.

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