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Originally Posted by suzzer99
But recruiters can't contact every team out there the way agents can. Most companies have exclusive relationships with a small number of them. So while you may get lucky and your previous recruiter has a great job for you - that's only a tiny subset of the jobs available in your area. Recruiters know this, they know the odds of working with you again are low.
Still once I've placed someone and actually met them in person and understand what they really value there should be enough trust that they'll probably call me when they think about changing jobs. At least that's the kind of relationship I have in mind...even if they'll find the job on their own they'd feel comfortable calling me.
Even if there's no repeat business that's fine.
I mean what would happen if I flew to SV today with a listing of all startups I know and went door to door and talked to them (or tried to) to get a basic interest in what kind of people they'd be interested in hireing in the future then went to a bunch of tech events/meetings etc. and just talked to people and get a feeling and maybe found a match or two.
Likewise you'd probably find someone (if you try and are the type of person) at one of the big tech companies that would be open to an offer along the lines of "let me wander around for a couple of month and bring you three people to interview and let's measure how they stack up against the typical guys walking in"
The main problem is that most recruiters I know play a numbers game and more often than not don't even know what it is that the people they talk to actually do.
In fact I could already see collecting a bunch of available CVs and actually reading them and trying to understand how the person ticks before calling them as a major+...it's just that broken.
tl;dr: quality > quantity...taking really good care of a couple of people > cold calling thousands. In the short run the numbers game will yield more, in the long run it'll probably yield the same. Once you have dealt with a couple of people and got some jobs and they actually had the feeling that you cared...I think you'll get good enough word of mouth to make it worth in the long run.
I could be completely wrong but tbh we're in a state were I'd be pretty wowed to be called by a recruiter that understood what I do....it's that bad.