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Discussion on: Have you worked with a third party recruiting agency?

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Corey McCarty

Not successfully. My current position is my first in the industry and I've been here for five years. I interviewed with other companies before this one and since this one and almost all were through a recruiter. I've not a had a bad experience with recruiters, although agencies can have some really crap benefits if you are talking about contract to hire positions. Some of them that I've see are $2k/mo benefits for a family and they don't start for 84 days (the other policies were not meeting federal standards.

All of the recruiters that I've used were working for the company. The only one that I've ever found that worked for the job seeker cost around 1500 USD. I would really hope that they are worth it, but I didn't have the money on hand to do it.