Recruiters certainly have a conflict of interest.
It would be pretty straightforward to add a couple questions to any general survey of employees in an industry to figure it out.
It would be pretty straightforward to add a couple questions to any general survey of employees in an industry to figure it out.
A couple years ago I posted an article here about an agent system where job seekers were the recruiter's real client (and footing the bills), which would resolve this particular instance of misaligned incentives.