Your Experiences with Recruiters?

companyAdvocate asks "I work in a small, high end IT consultancy. We are currently on a large recruitment drive and our targets are very ambitious. We are looking into alternative, original and cost-effective ways of hiring talented people. Google's billboard ad comes to mind. As we are a consultancy, we need good communicators as well as techies and raising the company profile may be an added bonus. What is the Slashdot community's experience with alternative recruitment methods? Were you hired in an exciting or interesting way? How do you make even rejected candidates leave with a positive impression?"

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[MikeRT]

My girlfriend can't take them seriously since she heard her recruiter on a local talk show admitting that she used to own and use a vibrator before she had her son. (I'm not trolling, she really did hear her recruiter admit to that in front of a whole Northern Virginia radio audience)