[VaSteve]

The hard part is if you float a resume on on of the job boards... you get multiple calls from recruiters who "..are working on a couple of things you might be interested in..."

What's really fun is when you probe them for names, you know that all these guys are working on the same positions. Several firm in my area are hiring people all the time. By the descriptions you can usually guess the firm. It's kinda fun.

The problem is, if your currently working, they phone screen you for a few minutes and then want you to come in for like 30 minutes to meet the rest of the recruiters and so they can see if you know how to tie a tie.

Then you're invested in them and they make you feel bad when you're not interested in their client.

Many of them, not all, are simply the "user car salesmen" of the job world. They push a position that might be uniteresting or hard to fill or with some company that you'd never want to work for. But they need to get you into a job because they need a paycheck. The better ones will establish a relationship with you because they know you might be hiring more people through them.