In an ideal world when it comes time to look for a new role you'd browse all the companies with positions open. It's frustrating though, that many, many companies don't advertise the positions because the effort of sorting through thousands of replies is too much, so they outsource that by going through a recruiter.
The recruiters though are typically inexperienced due to high churn rate, so it's almost random luck that you'd get a good fit for a job interview, particularly if they lie to both you and the employer before the interview to make it seem like there's a fit.
It's definitely inefficient, what's the solution here?
Networking. Funny enough, LinkedIn is a pretty decent tool for that. I got my current job by contacting a friend here and I would not know I have a contact here without having found that via LI.
The recruiters though are typically inexperienced due to high churn rate, so it's almost random luck that you'd get a good fit for a job interview, particularly if they lie to both you and the employer before the interview to make it seem like there's a fit.
It's definitely inefficient, what's the solution here?