On the recruiting"talent acquisition" (don't we all love a PC turd?) they may or may not be bombarded with Resumes. I commiserate with them on this.
Then they have to weed out Resumes [if a recruiter is not in direct contact with the Hiring Manager] -- based on what criteria? ... their technical acumen is n/a.
Then they need to do a face to face with candidates and that's when it gets sticky: some discuss freely based on a common sense agenda, some subject people to a questionnaire lifted from Recruitering for Dummies. Ouch.
In the end if hired on f/t one has to deal with them, [if you are lucky and they are not offshored] however they are not there for YOU but as a CYA for the employer. Oh, and they can be super annoying with some dumb mandatory trainings.
The worse for me was about 10 years ago when they were subjecting me to OSHA training, nevermind I went thru that 5 times before.
Luckily as a contractor I only deal with them when they take my photo for the badge.
-ulianov
