Recruiting is messy. In business there are all kinds of middlemen filling sales and service roles. These businesses manage assets whether physical or intellectual, in recruitment our assets possess free-will.
The messiness comes from unknowns, communications failures, and well people. Regarding the communications failures, very few IT recruiters have an IT background. So in the magic telephone game the client tells us one thing, our managers who primarily deal with the clients may be the only one hear the request first hand. They pass on their interpretation to the recruiter and then the recruiter passes on the information to the candidate.
In vetting the candidate, lets say a Java developer, the recruiter may ask "Do you have over three years of experience with JSPs?" they then listen to the candidate filtering out what in general sounds like star-trek speak, looking for affirmation or negation (for which the candidate confirmed they did indeed meet this requirement). Then the recruiter asks their next question "Yes, and our client requires over three years of Java experience. Do you have over three years of Java experience?". I can feel the candidates mind melting, from across the room, though the phone line, on the other side of the country.
Recruiting is messing, not just for the recruiter but also for the candidate as well as the client.
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