> Referring someone for an interview and watching them get turned down was, for me at least, about 80% of the psychic cost of applying myself and getting turned down.
Wow it actually makes a lot of sense. Especially since you seemed to handpick candidates and vouch for them from a technical point of view.
I wonder if classic recruiters have this problem as they (most of the time) just bet on the number and are not invested personally.
The vast majority of tech recruiters have no actual idea of how skilled their employee-side client is and are just keyword correlation machines that happen to be made of meat.
As such I doubt it impacts them much, if at all, beyond the obvious disappointment of not getting the salary cut, which they surely mitigate by just throwing candidates until one sticks.
Wow it actually makes a lot of sense. Especially since you seemed to handpick candidates and vouch for them from a technical point of view.
I wonder if classic recruiters have this problem as they (most of the time) just bet on the number and are not invested personally.