Headhunter's 'I Hate Headhunters' Post Positively Dripping With Irony

Harry Joiner is sick of headhunters.

“I am a reasonably bright guy with an incredibly diverse professional background…and I couldn’t find a job to save my life,” he writes. “All that mattered to recruiters was I was a round peg, and they had square holes to fill.”

Sucks. It’s true: most headhunters will reject you for not being a fit, because a recruiter gets paid based on the number of placements he makes, not the number of jobseekers he helps.

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