I find your first response about professional recruiters is actually linked to the scarcity of roles. Has been since the recession, the time jobs when jobs were tight, the same time as many of these professional HR teams instigated these generic portals. Truly a poor statistical measure.

I remember in 2008 an HR team patting themselves on the back because they reported in an exec meeting that annual 'ee turnover was under 20%. Nothing to do with the recession and the entire company being on a poison pill redundancy deal; one of the most generous redundancy deals I have ever seen.

What do you think of the hidden market and those companies that try to exploit it?

"Everything is air-droppable at least once."

"When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support."

I was applying for jobs recently without success, one piece of advice I'd give is log every application on an excel sheet with dates, agencies will ask you this and you'll look organised and not that you chucked your CV everywhere

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