Isn't there a gap in the market, though?
I'd pay 5-15% of my first year's salary (pretty much the same commission that comes out of the client end, from my experiences of hiring through an agency/consultancy) to a consultant who would, after an in depth interview to find out my experience, preferences and aspirations, take my CV, do all the ringing round/networking on my behalf, give me weekly updates and otherwise only contact me to let me know when and where the interviews he or she had arranged for me to attend were to take place.

That, to me, would be a valuable service.

Instead, they either wait for the same job ads I see on every job website I've bothered registering with myself, or they charge me three and a half grand to "put me in touch with the unadvertised jobs market", make me do all the work to spruce up my own CV and do all the networking/chasing around. Surely if the consultants did this themselves, after three or four clients they'd get paid by both ends and have a contacts book worth another 10 year's work?

Similarly, as an employer, I'd be happy as Larry to fork out a big chunk of the salary I planned to pay to arrange some interviews for me, based on a detailed interview and the Job Spec I'd come up with.

Do such recruitment consultants exist, or are they just middlemen leeching off other people's inertia?
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 28 May 2010, 17:52, 1 reply)

Am I the only one that giggled
upon reading "Even now my buttocks are savouring the coolness of my leather office chair." followed by "Isn't there a gap in the market though?"
( sanityclause is waiting until, Fri 28 May 2010, 20:20, closed)