Skip The Recruiter and find who the client is.

THIS TOOL DOES NOT EXIST: I am hoping to find a way that the tool does not actually allow a candidate to bunny hop a recruiter that is actually helping the client. This will NOT be built if there is no reliable mechanism to actually tell if a recruiter has rehashed a job specification from a job listings site.

ETHICAL NOTICE: I actually have a shortlist of fantastic recruiters. This project is only to be used with recruiters who are NOT instructed by the client that job boards of real listings and have basically "invited themselves" to recruit for this position.

BEFORE YOU USE THIS TOOL: Please consider that recruiters are sometimes vital and recruiters are sometimes NOT JUST CV SHUFFLERS so there may be times when the client hasn't directly instructed a recruitment firm, but the client is struggling to fill a job position (think: Kotlin/Scala, Go devs, Node.js devs, .NET Core devs, PHP devs - they're all in demand!) - so this isn't always the right tool to use as that recruiter may actually have a great rolodex of developers.

What is the problem with recruitment?

A lot of folks don't know this, but recruiters could be the reason you lose a great job.

Recruiters can actually cost the client the best applicant because of the huge fees.

Permanent recruitment has a sky high fee between 5% and 20% of your first year salary. This fee can get silly quite quickly, especially if you need to say - fill 3 Node.js positions that's sometimes >£15K+ in fees.

Every project I have worked on, the management discounted applicants who come at a huge fee of the first year salary.

This fee is not appropriate if the recruiter just mails everybody in their list and then loads of folks apply. A jobseeker will already be subscribed to job boards.

The consequence is you may be given a code test for a job that doesn't exist OR the client actually knows they're probably not going to use the recruitment firm.

But you said that some recruiters are good?

Yes, some recruiters are good. But the client should instruct the firm to find the candidate. This project would be a way to find out if a recruiter is not actually the preferred recruitment agency of the client.

What could this do that was useful and ethical?

• It could ensure that the job is not listed somewhere else where you can go direct and have better chances of securing your dream job.
• It could contact the client to verify the recruiter is the preferred recruiter, if they verify the job, then we list it on a website.
  • This actually would help recruiters as we would have a list of jobs that the client has specifically instructed to do the job.
• We could weirdly use this referral fee for good.
  • If the recruiter IS actually helping the client fill hard-to-fill roles, then we could possibly use referall fees for good.
  • It could be used as a tool for referrals and this could actually be siphoned off into a kitty for open source projects.