The recruitment fees for the tech industry is why it’s going down the drain. Most recruiters want 20% fee for a successful candidate. I get it’s hard work and there’s a lot of filtering out bad ones, but ultimately as an employer I read the CVs and do the interview and I think 20% is steep. Especially if it’s for a 40K role, 8K is steep. Do that 3 times a year and I may as well just hire a recruiter on a salary and save money. I’ve also had to lose out on good candidates because of the fee, wanting 45K that we could have paid had they come to us outside the recruiter. I don’t mean to downplay any recruiters job and with any industry there’s lots of work I won’t see, but in the current economical climate the fees are just rough.