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It's humorous to me how many companies don't want to use recruiters because they want to avoid "the fees", yet in the same breath they spend excessive amounts on billboards, internet postings, classifieds, job fairs, etc, etc, to get resumes pouring in.

Then a person or group of people takes the time and energy (costing you money) to sift through the chaff to find the wheat that (hopefully) lies within.

Finally, a decision is made to screen 10-20 people, afterwhich 5-10 are selected for interviews, resulting in 2-3 second-interviews and, hopefully, a hire.

Are you out of breath yet?  Remember not to forget your regular 60 hour work week in all of this!

Recruiters, let me point out, cut out everything before the last few interviewing steps.  This leaves you with:

• Call the recruiter and place the order (adequately defining the need)
• Collect 3-5 tightly screened resumes (out of the hundreds they scanned)
• Interview the best of them
• Make a hiring decision, allowing the recruiter to perform all background checks, etc, in tandem with your interview schedule.
• Pay your fee (usually with a fully-refundable guarantee for a certain time-period) and walk away smiling.

The value of a recruiter is easilly defined: The dollar-amount of their fee plus the value your new hire will bring to the table, plus the ability to actually sleep at night since the day your previous employee gave their notice and walked out the door.