There are only two areas of recruitment that really matter
By Mitch Sullivan,
They're the two areas where most (if not all) of the hard work is done.
Candidate Attraction and Candidate Assessment.
Of the two, I'd say that Assessment is the hardest work. Luckily, most recruiters do very little interviewing. We tend to be more screeners than interviewers.
And there's nothing wrong with that. Ultimately, there's usually only one person best qualified to assess candidates and that's the hiring manager.
So that just leaves the other one. Attraction.
That's the one where they can bring the most value and where it's the easiest to win the respect of their clients.