Keywords , Recruiters , Screeners and competencies of ideal recruiter

Recruiter:  A person in charge for the job of finding resumes for given KEYWORDS.

Keywords:  generated by demand(job posting) , written in resumes, magic item for dumb recruiter.
                   for example JavaScript,  Java, C++, C, embedded, Android, iOS, Cocoa, XCode , XML, cloud, Html , SAP, Linux ...................... these are the keywords.


Team Lead:  We need an expert for XYZ.  XYZ is a keyword.
Project Manager: defines his JD (role and responsibilities)
HR : creates requirement for above JD and pass to recruiter.
Recruiter : passes to newly recruited staff. Most of them are ladies.
Staff Member: calls candidate , we are looking for a person who is good in XYZ. Believe me He/She even does not know how to pronounce that keyword properly. He/She does not have any Idea about it and just acts as a middle man.

  Real Example:  We need a person who has experience in  ko-ko-kk-aaa (could not even pronounce cocoa), objective c who has 3 experience in iphone development.
  (Question was asked in 2009 ,  apple iphone sdk was released in 2008, how come somebody have 3 years experience other than apple guy.  See the quality of JD creator(PM) , HR and Recruiter.)

Screeners:  Few losers in huge companies acts as screening guys. There job is mug few thing and mindlessly throw questions on candidate, regardless for what the vacancy is. Most of the time they mug some questions and answers on data structures/oops etc. If you just ask them to do a screening for a recently released technology for which company desperately need good people, they are blank.

So why to waste money in Screeners???
   It is because HR people are not at all competent in understanding the technologies.  So they take help of Screeners, so that they can be a little bit safe from the team leads complaining about wrong shortlisted profiles.

An Ideal Head of HR for a recruitment team should be the one who has been an engineer for atleast 3-4 years not just an MBA in HR.  A good MBA in HR can be a policy maker, environment maker but certainly not a recruitment guy.