I graduated from one of the top schools about 5 years ago, and out of the blue someone emailed me at my alum address. He doesn't seem to know much about me other than that I am an alum.<p>I talked to him more and it seems they are working mostly with well funded startups and hedge funds in New York. I have sent him my resume and he helped schedule me for a couple phone interviews, without telling me in advance which companies he was going to send my resume to.<p>Anyone has experience with these recruiters? Will it hurt me in anyway by going through them instead of applying to those companies directly?