What I would look out for is recruiting firms. I had one that placed me once, into a job I wasn't particularly suited to. They took 15% from the employer for that. Some time after I was chatting with them and they said "oh, if we'd known you were a networking person we could have got you a lot more" -- ie, they hadn't even read my CV for their 15% and they were really working for the employer, not for me.
One of the Perl maintainers did an analysis of this situation a few years ago.
His conclusion was that their intrinsic interests don't belong with either party.
They don't work for the companies, and they don't work for the people they find jobs for.
The remuneration structure of the industry means they work only for themselves, and the situation is set up for them to abuse both sides and use every trick they can to do so.
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