Title: In my experience, most recruiters are leeches on the system who only have short-term goals -- place as many as possible, no matter whether they fit, long term reputation be damned. I&#x27;ve experienced this from their telemarketer like calls as well as when I was leading a large project and needed additional help. The recruiters weren&#x27;t saving me any time -- if anything, they were costing me time and I finally demanded that I interview the candidates that my boss was bringing on. I&#x27;ve never had to work with them on the other side as in 20 years I&#x27;ve never had to search for a job and only interviewed once when I moved to a new area and didn&#x27;t have existing contacts trying to recruit me.<p>I recently left very profitable employment to form my own company and to start doing consulting&#x2F;contracting. So far I&#x27;ve been busy enough just through word of mouth, but eventually I expect that well to dry up since I live in an area without a huge number of tech companies, so I&#x27;m starting to put out feelers to build new relationships and find new potential clients.<p>I imagine there must exist a subset of recruiters who take time to fully vet their candidates and only promote them to companies who are a good fit. It seems that finding one of these could be a win-win. Just like on the hiring side, I don&#x27;t want to waste time dealing with carpet-bombers. I would love to build a meaningful relationship with one who can get to know me, get to know my skills, seek high quality matches from companies who also value this person&#x27;s selectiveness and talent pool.<p>Do such recruiters exist? How does one find them? And on a related note, are there particular recruiting companies (who place corp-to-corp contractors) that have a good reputation in this regard, and any that you would caution me to watch out for?
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