Fake job ads, scant vetting, urgent demands for large sums of cash: recruiting, once a crucial candidate-finder, has become a rush to funnel workers into a job at any cost — and employers are paying the price. “I always refer to it as a cowboy industry,” one former recruiter says. “I don’t necessarily think there was anything we did that would be illegal, but there was a lot that to many would be immoral. We did everything we could to bend the rules.”
Between a challenging jobs market and the advent of AI hiring tools, agents appear to be…
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