Yeah, I mostly had in mind the first group you've described, but in my experience they are by far the biggest group. Truly "professional" recruiters are very ra

Yeah, I mostly had in mind the first group you've described, but in my experience they are by far the biggest group. Truly "professional" recruiters are very rare. I agree that referrals often yield the best results, but that's quite orthogonal to the problem I wanted to tackle with my article.