Experiences with staffing and recruiting agencies is very much dependent on several external factors - you're background, your willingness to make yourself available for interviews, your open-mindedness to new companies and/or new industries and most importantly - your relationship with the recruiter.
Sure, recruiters don't have the best reputation - however you try banging out cold-calls all day and searching for companies who will solicit your assistance in filling their roles with someone who embodies 95% of a client's requirements - all while several candidates are calling, emailing and coming in and each one wants to be treated like they are the most important person in the room.
A huge part of a recruiter's annual salary usually involves commission and hustling hard on behalf of their client's and candidates to jump through hoops in order to make a placement (ie. deal) and get that money (and ultimately keep their own jobs). Anyone who's reviewed Bachrach Group and implied that their recruiters don't work hard is SORELY mistaken...
I do not work here, I have never worked here and I've fortunately been able to secure my own jobs in the past 5+ years so I haven't used Bachrach's services from the candidate angle, but I have used their services from the client's side and I've gotta say, they've been a godsend.
I'm a part of a really awesome company's in-house talent acquisition team and I lead all recruitment strategy and efforts for our tech and product departments. Prior to this I did the same with tech, product, editorial, ad operations, ad sales, media planners, digital marketing peeps, production, a sprinkle of finance...you get the idea.
With my supporting so many teams at my previous company, it wasn't unheard of for me to have 40+ open roles on my plate and it makes it really hard to provide a fantastic experience to each hiring manager when you are juggling so much - in comes outside agencies and in my case Bachrach Group helped me out many times.
I've had the pleasure of working predominantly with Anthony Fanzo + his tech team and they have absolutely exceeded my expectations and gone above and beyond the call of duty to provide me with qualified and interested talent, made sure to not drop the ball in terms of communication and were very trustworthy in making sure that the messaging from my company was consistent and reliable when it came to sensitive topics such as salary negotiations or unfavorable feedback.
They worked very hard on behalf of their candidates and didn't simply drop em' if they received negative feedback after a client interview. Instead a superior recruiter would use that as an opportunity to provide mentoring and career advising to ensure that candidates knew the best was to present themselves and do something with that negative feedback so that they could improve for their next interview.
Of course jobs aren't simply just hanging off of trees waiting to be taken, as with many things in life - recruiting agencies are best utilized using a "help me help you" mentality. If you don't trust your recruiter is working hard for you and you're not honest with the wins and challenges of your job search, then don't expect favorable results from any agency.
I've known several people here for years and their tech recruiting team only employs people who understand the industry, keep their knowledge of tech relevant through social media and are skilled at sales - while not losing their souls in the process.
Bachrach has also over the years undergone lots of management changes. Anthony now serves as the Managing Director for the tech recruiting team who staffs for everything tech from full-time, contract all the way to temp to perm.
If you work hard and are hungry then Bachrach will be able to help you and before you roll your eyes, it takes work to find work so while you're busy huffing, puffing and writing negative Yelp reviews because recruiters can't find you a job, think about what's wrong with you because they're working which means they must be doing something right and placing candidates that ARE doing all the right things. read more