in reality, a number of brilliant people used to constitute the recruitment industry, however during the last few years, it has become a playground for under 25 no achievers, unintelligent , selfish individuals and more concerning downright self concerned liars to make a quick buck.

some of these individuals used to pursue careers in banking high end sales etc where that kind of aggression and willingness to do pretty much anything to succeed was masked and eventually swallowed up by a need for actual knowledge.

however with the onset of the downturn, these individuals turned to recruitment, and in most “specialist” areas such as technology, there is no real requirement to learn anything other than buzzwords meaning that the previous focus required for a sales hungry grad to have to learn about accounting and gain a CPA or ACA qualification is…. gone.

and thus all that remains is the willingness to say anything you must, to whoever you must without understanding anything to make a placement.

the terribly sad thing is, especially for the UK, is that all this will cause is a talent exodus of those internationally mobile, high end IT professionals who are tired of the industry going the way it is.

because so much economic activity in England is focused in London, it becomes a hotbed, as opposed to the spread of this kind of recruitment activity in a large spread area, such as the USA.

the only real way to fix this is to do something about the next up and coming generation of young people, and give the oppotunities to gain access to the industries they really want to work in via direct talent enagagement, with a truly wide talent pool, instead of focussing on just the oxbridge cream.

if this doesnt get done, there will be a nation of salespeople and recruiters in the UK and a VERY small talent pool of IT, Finance and Healthcare professionals indeed.