Working with a recruiter is like working with any trade or service.

You can do your own DIY, accounts, mortgage application. How effective your work is relates to your level of competence.

You may benefit from transactional support if you lack time, skill or general wherewithal. You can probably do these steps yourself but you're paying to reduce hassle.

The more challenging or individual your situation, the more likely it is to get the outcome you need by retaining an expert.

Here transactional will typically be ineffectual, unless luck comes your way. Is luck a strategy?

If you'd benefit from non transactional, the challenge becomes selecting the right supplier and cutting through the promises, promises of bad marketing.

It's no coincidence all of my good experiences from trades and service come from a referral.

Nor is it that two thirds of my business comes from recommendation.

Of course the benefit of recommendation also goes the other way.

If someone recommends me, I know they know me well enough that the potential client meets my needs too.

And when recommended, the last thing I want to happen is to let the person who recommended me down.

With recommendation comes accountability.

I've some capacity for new recruitment - if you'd like to recommend a decent company to me, I'll fill their problem vacancy.