evensevenone posted:

External recruiters who work on contingency--this is where things start getting bad. Contingency means that they don't have any particular agreement with the employer and the employer might have listed with multiple agencies. Or even worse, the employer wants nothing at all to do with recruiters, and these guys just harvested a job description off a website and are going to try to squeeze their way into the hiring process. Generally these guys are pretty much bottom feeders and will just take a spray and pray approach; they're why almost any job posting you see will say "no agency resumes". I'm not even sure how they have a viable business model since nobody really wants to work with them, but I suspect they just hire a bunch of kids/desperate people and pay them on commission. Sadly these are the people that spend all day on LinkedIn or combing monster. Some of them are OK but you really want to be careful.