HeadHunters vs Contract Companies. (Score 1)

Well, just to be clear - I divide them into two separate groups. Staffing/Headhunters have relationships with HR/Hiring managers of companies and try to find people to fill those positions. Effectively doing alot of weeding out; they are paid once. Contract companies - Manpower, Apex, Insight Global and such, tend to take a cut of the contractor's hourly pay indeterminately(YMMV). With the first type, they can be useful - there was a very nice lady who prepped and informed me about the company and the job that she was sending me to interview for. I found it much more helpful than the simple job description. Conversly, the latter kind are the devil. On a 90-day contract to hire job, they were taking 4 dollars an hour off the top of what I made. Later, a manager I knew at big blue told me that Manpower was easily the worst - charging the company twice, and then giving the contractor only half of it. Can you imagine some schmuck charging your company 50 dollars an hour and paying you 25, just for the service of placing you? Forever? Sadly, he said that even with that kind of a$$-raping, it was cheaper for them to hire contractors, because of liability issues that came with permanent hires(whatever that meant).