Recruiting should be cheap

Only actually read the first part "The High Cost of Transfer Fees" of this article and then stopped because it's dumb. Recruiting really isn't a game of restraints with the biggest being lack of money- recruiting should actually be pretty cheap. Tech recruiters should base their successes on how to suck the least because everyone sucks. No one is good at this and if you're good at this, something is wrong.

But really, the issue isn't lack of money for resources, it's a challenging market and the length of time it takes to cultivate candidates. You can't buy success, a higher response rate, spectacular tools, etc. with recruiting, it is and it always will have the old-fashioned element of working with each individual candidate face-to-face to find the right match. Cost should be minimal- maybe a LinkedIn acct, a phone bill and some coffee/drinks, but really, thats it.