Recruiters R Tools

Spring is the beginning of the life cycle in nature... and it also seems to be the beginning of the life cycle for those tools we know as recruiters in the corporate world. Salespeople tend to sugarcoat their products to fool customers into buying, but there's no bigger lying scumbag, crook than a recruiter. It's beyond me why companies hire them. They have to pay them a fee on top of the salary of the potential employee. The recruiter gets to sugarcoat both the job and the candidate, in turn lying to both parties. In the end, an unqualified worker could end up working at a nightmare job.

I had one of these call me the other day and he was totally sugarcoating the position. It was a job that looked interesting, but it was for less money, a less reputable company, less vacation time and worse products. Yet this tool was trying to make it sound great... how I could make the equivalent to my salary within a year. Now why would I do that? Why would I walk backwards only to be where I am now in a year. And he wanted a Word version of my resume (I gave him a PDF), so that he could edit it (and lie to the employer).