Comments on: It’s the recruiters, stupid! http://robwebb2k.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/its-the-recruiters-stupid/ Startups, technology and whatnot. Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: WS http://robwebb2k.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/its-the-recruiters-stupid/#comment-1349 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:54:51 +0000 http://robwebb2k.wordpress.com/?p=290#comment-1349 I’d argue that a lot of the job boards you mention above — especially monster and career builder — are used almost exclusively by recruiters. They’re what we call at my office “resume thickets”. No one wants to take the time to sift through them. When you hire a recruiter, or even post a job to a recruiting marketplace like Dayak, what you’re paying for is for the recruiter to do all that for you.

That having been said, I think Craigslist, which is a great local classified, and Linked In, which needs no glossing on my count, are kind of in a different league, and serve different purposes. Which isn’t to say that recruiters don’t use them. The staffing industry has been taking some hard hits lately like everything else but it’s definitely not going anywhere.

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