<p><pre><code> - Posting misleading job descriptions
- Posting bait-and-switch job descriptions
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Tactics once used to recruit for porn. Still used to recruit for prostitution.
Has anyone here ever had a <i>good</i> experience hiring with a recruiter? This is a recurring topic where I am, and it always seems like a debacle waiting to happen.
I suspect recruiters are comforting when companies don't know enough about the technology to judge qualification. Of course, rarely do recruiters know much more.<p>Does anyone know if there are services for performing due diligence on candidates? I know at a CTO level they exist, but what about hiring that one guy who knows iPhone development when the rest of your shop is Java?
<i>Nothing's worse than getting to an interview and finding out that you know COBOL from the hiring manager reading it off your resume.</i><p>The rest of the tips seem to be really sleazy, but are pretty surreptitious. However, wouldn't this be extremely obvious to both parties and be so blatantly unethical to end the recruiter's career?