I've met a few good recruiters, to be sure. But the median one definitely seemed to just match candidates up to roles in an entirely mechanical way, not even as well as an LLM could (because it at least would be informed roughly about whether or not experience in X translates at all to experience in Y, and not be tricked into thinking e.g. Java and JavaScript are at all functionally related). I wonder how those folks are doing these days, and how well they'll be doing in a few years.