A recruiting agency with a hundred thousand recruits in a database is not functionally any different than a call center with a list of leads they purchased and validated.
Do not believe anyone who tells you they can force employers to change their methodology when it comes to salary and compensation revelation. Recruiting agencies are so far outside that wheelhouse that it's damned near scandalous to even pretend the statement has any validity.
Also, I think it's important to differentiate staff recruiters from outside recruiters.
Staff recruiters are HR people. They're on the job to shove square pegs into square holes.
Outside recruiters are salespeople. They're on the job to explain why a round peg can reasonably fit in a square hole.
This is your career. So act like it.
If 10 different people were each going to give you a hundred dollars if you described yourself to them in a way that would obviously ingratiate yourself to them (person with cat photo, person with dog photo, person with photo of their kids, etc) most would immediately come up with reasons to make themselves1 appeal to their tastes.
But people keep on submitting the same dumb resume over and over again and expect a different result. Accentuate the things in your resume that matter to the company you're trying to get a gig at. Yes, for each of them. If you would do it for a grand, you can do it for a career.
Do not believe anyone who tells you they can force employers to change their methodology when it comes to salary and compensation revelation. Recruiting agencies are so far outside that wheelhouse that it's damned near scandalous to even pretend the statement has any validity.
Also, I think it's important to differentiate staff recruiters from outside recruiters.
Staff recruiters are HR people. They're on the job to shove square pegs into square holes.
Outside recruiters are salespeople. They're on the job to explain why a round peg can reasonably fit in a square hole.
This is your career. So act like it.
If 10 different people were each going to give you a hundred dollars if you described yourself to them in a way that would obviously ingratiate yourself to them (person with cat photo, person with dog photo, person with photo of their kids, etc) most would immediately come up with reasons to make themselves1 appeal to their tastes.
But people keep on submitting the same dumb resume over and over again and expect a different result. Accentuate the things in your resume that matter to the company you're trying to get a gig at. Yes, for each of them. If you would do it for a grand, you can do it for a career.