Matt Crick asked: The voices that echo around the recruitment industry provide mixed subjectivity when asked about the future of online recruitment. The birth of Internet recruitment sites at the turn of the millennium generated significant debate and one question rose loud and clear from the rest: Is the Internet fundamentally changing the relationship between the client and recruitment agency?Like many industries in early 2000, recruitment was adjusting itself for a new digital era. Commentators envisaged Internet recruitment would, in essence, eliminate the middle man; the industry would suffer from 'disintermediation' as it was rather awkwardly labelled.By the time 2002 had arrived, the same people were forecasting that online and traditional procedures could co-habit the same space. In 2003, this confident and audacious prediction proved to be incorrect and the Internet had [+]