How are recruiters a drain on the industry? I've never seen a place that used recruiters that didn't have a direct path for candidates to get into the hiring process.
People here seem to be shocked, shocked at the fees recruiters charge employers. I presume, unfairly perhaps, that those people have never had to scale hiring. The fully loaded drag of an employee --- including their fully loaded cost and the lost productivity across the team to ramp them up and the risk-adjusted cost of lost productivity in the months leading up to you firing them --- that drag is huge. Recruiters are expensive, even in comparison to that cost, but they're not ridiculous; they're priced roughly where the on-paper value they bring to the process says they should be.
(We don't use recruiters, but that's not because of ideology).
Recruiters work when the most suitable candidates don't know who you are (or wouldn't consider applying for any jobs you might have)
Otherwise any value they might bring to the screening process is limited by their desire to send the number of possibly suitable candidates that maximises their chances of getting paid (which unless they really know their stuff or know they're a preferred supplier means lots).
People here seem to be shocked, shocked at the fees recruiters charge employers. I presume, unfairly perhaps, that those people have never had to scale hiring. The fully loaded drag of an employee --- including their fully loaded cost and the lost productivity across the team to ramp them up and the risk-adjusted cost of lost productivity in the months leading up to you firing them --- that drag is huge. Recruiters are expensive, even in comparison to that cost, but they're not ridiculous; they're priced roughly where the on-paper value they bring to the process says they should be.
(We don't use recruiters, but that's not because of ideology).