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    > I understand this conversation is a bit meaningless.
    > It's as if someone would talk to me saying that
    > programming profession is outdated and needs to be
    > replaced with something else. I would refuse to believe
    > that, of course.
The conversation is meaningless because you do not - or will not - read.

You are talking to me as if I think the agency model is perfect, where the originating comment specifically stated I thought it needed to be fixed.

You are talking to me as if I am primarily a recruiter, where the originating comment mentions that I am in fact primarily a tech guy. I have been programming commercially for longer than you, and I have been a CTO at a company two orders of magnitude larger than yours, and I have had to fill headcount larger than your entire company - a task that would have been impossible without recruiters.

You are talking to me as if I see the world through an agency recruitment role, where the originating comment mentions that I have a specialisation in recruitment software. As it happens, many of the world's largest companies (and many of its smaller ones) used the software we built at my last role with their in-house recruitment teams - I was responsible for a software system through which 70% of all job-ads posted in the UK passed. My understanding of recruitment comes through working with recruitment teams from 2 person companies to gigantic multinationals, from personal experience as a hiring manager, from countless times as a technical candidate, and - of course - from the time I spend working as an agent.




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