Here's an advice. The software engineering market, at least the upper end of it, doesn't need a email forwarding proxy middleman. What it needs is a club-like organisation that acts as a negotiator that leverages insider knowledge to get unreasonable parties on both ends to sign a contract. Good devs don't really search for jobs and don't really talk to random recruiters. They get a steady stream of sales pitches from friends of friends or former co-workers and leverage their fairly wide network to get insider info about companies they're considering to join to get a good contract. The "club" would be like a golf club address book with staff working to connect matching parties. It's surely not a dating site for programmers with ahem.. "AI" selling resumes to data brokers.
I very informally do this right now. I think of my role as a sports agent for top engineers. The engineers I work with pay nothing and the companies who want access to them give us no bullshit, all access interviews where we're not working with HR or recruiters. It works so well for both parties that I'm scaling it at the moment.
Hence the good ol' "We'll give you $5,000 for every engineer you refer to us...and there's no cap!"
At least good companies do this anyway.
Also, executive search recruiters kind-of do what you're describing. Exec leadership is a small-ish world, and the recruiting cycle for, say, a CTO can take months. However, there's a lot of commission on the other end of that. So recruiters basically act as brokers.
Meh. As someone who has moved around a lot this just sounds like friend nepotism. Based on this system I’d be a garbage tier developer since I don’t have friends in high places.
I much prefer the imperfect systems that at least pretend to be fair and objective-ish.
