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Let's be frank about it. Agencies can cost a lot of money. Someone has to do the work, pay for the ads, search and screen candidates. Recruitment fees are anywhere between 40% and 15% of the candidate's anticipated first year's total compensation. Whether that is cost effective is debatable. Whether recruitment brings you better people depends on your experience. And many people have not had good experiences. Agencies often do not send the right people for the job. In the past, the attitude was "let's throw as many potentially qualified people through their door as possible. If enough of them go out, one should stick." We were trained on the principle of `when in doubt, send em out.' Therefore, to make a placement, agencies sometimes send people who are not qualified for the position. Vice Presidents who don't know the first thing about leadership or people with attitudes which would poison your company. This is a common problem in "commission" jobs. The goal is to make the `sale' instead of