That explains why all the recruiters on LinkedIn are trying to low-ball me so much. The actual rate they charge is double!
Why do they deserve 50% of the billing rate (they can't even bother spending 30 seconds to google and note down what these terms mean)? Is their service that valuable? Heck, compared to them even the freelance websites that take 20% (Fiverr etc) seem like saints.
Another recruiter changed my resume without my knowledge. I found out during the interview. All kinds of shady stuff going on with these people.
In the UK, everyone even close to tech-adjacent has similar stories.
[1]: https://gist.github.com/CumpsD/696599d1bd4cd472a056586967293...
8 of those minutes are partly/mostly on you. (I’d give ‘em 1-2 minutes and then just hang up.)