Shady recruiters

I know we've all talked about shady recruiting practices in this sub. I'll share something just so disturbing happening in our field.

Well, last night my friends and I talked about how shit our industry now with all the new companies relying on third-party headhunters. Before, companies in our field really relied on good in-house recruiters who would really get good people hired into their companies, leading their competition to throw money on whoever can stay to bear whatever shit they poured in there. Good times, I'm not kidding. They'd like even give swanky relocation packages to siphon out everyone from a firm in a city outside the metro LOL!

Now US companies (I come here as a friend) have known about the experienced people here, so they dumped in work that actually doesn't match the experience of the people they want to hire (like 93% of those experienced people do A, companies want to hire those who do B, thinking those who did A can do B). This led to “recruiter frenzy”, like recruiters being aggressive on anyone just go hire someone and GET THE MOOLAH. Now these are the shady practices we talked about last night:

1. The recruiters are BLATANTLY LYING about the role and cover it up with SHITLOADS OF MONEY. They say you do A, and then narrate what's needed for A. Then you put one and one together, they're actually talking about B. Sometimes they actually post a completely different job description that looks really suspicious in the eyes of anyone experienced. Anyone who probably hasn't had deep roots in the industry would get duped with the allure of a signing bonus that's so big. Then they come in and find out there's no training for the role (a disturbing thing we are noticing now), and they set themselves up for failure.
2. Recruiters WITHHOLDING vital information. While you should really ask specifics (they say), some recruiters withhold information like shift and remote status, or say “shifting schedules” or “remote until government declares otherwise”. Now people do sign because well, looks like we can deal with it. When they get in the company, they are then told it's FULL ONSITE, FULL NIGHT and because you didn't have the right information, or had it withheld, you signed up for it.
3. Recruiters DELIBERATELY SABOTAGING candidates who are “woke” (positive usage). So these recruiters come in and lure in people who are like 5-7 years in the field and as usual, flowery recruiter talk. The candidates sense something amiss, so they question the recruiters. Of course, they demand higher pay. Now the recruiters put them through unusual circumstances (first day on a date you announced during interview you will be on a trip, recruiter luring them to say stuff to make them sound unfavorable to the hiring manager, recruiters verbally abusing them) to make them say no. Sort of like “we WANT you to say no because we can't fool you, and then we'll put in the notes that you are a bitch.”

So sorry for the long-ass post. We had good times before in our field. Job hunting now in our field is horrible. I've told my friends to stay where they are because jobhunting is a pain now.

And if anyone calls me out for being an outsourced worker, I'm not your enemy. We fight for our rights to decent livelihood too, and this industry is really giving chances to people who probably would go hungry because no one would give them a chance. A labor leader has recently been focusing on our sector to build a union. I do hope he does. I'd join it.