&gt; I&#x27;m a recruiter (yeah, yeah, recruiters know nothing) and I&#x27;m going to call this as a fail. It&#x27;s INCREDIBLY hard to get even one person employed. The bar is so high at most employers that almost every applicant gets rejected.<p>To be a bit blunt here: I&#x27;ve only experienced once that talking to a recruiter helped for <i>any</i>thing. (OK, twice if I&#x27;m generous, it wasn&#x27;t a recruiter, it was a hiring manager at a consulting company and I ended up rejecting the job.)<p>I have however sold myself in a number of times the last few years.<p>So if anyone in recruiting needs a good idea, here is one:<p>* do get back to devs with updates, not only customer<p>* know what you are talking about, don&#x27;t ask if I still know how to bike (or program) just because I haven&#x27;t been doing it full time in 12 months<p>* do sell<p>* in Europe