Mmmmm...I have to differ. I would submit that 99% of "honest and professional recruiters" are more like "recruiters that haven't been caught yet." I think that a lot of people (well, there aren't all that many, really) who have had decent experiences with recruiters owe their success to luck, not any kind of diligence or honesty on the part of the recruiters...recruiters will put people into good gigs or bad ones with equal indifference.

Yeah, OK, there might be one or two good ones in the whole country of China, but your odds of coming across them are infinitesimal....and when I see individuals touting and linking to specific recruiters, I have to at least pause and ask what their motives might be.

Recruiters are parasites on our industry...remoras on the shark of TEFL. We certainly don't need their services, nor do we want the disastrous results they often produce. I strongly recommend shunning them.