You're probably right (although recruitment consultants would have the employee thinking they are acting for them!). My point was mainly in response to the calls for agents to be banned.
My experience of recruitment consultants are that they fire out your cv to everyone and anyone just to get their fee
Actually you are right they do some of that too. I'd forgotten the weekly emails of "Excellent candidates" I get from agencies. I'm not sure how you get on those lists though, I'm pretty sure I am an excellent candidate but they never seem interested. Anyway I'm probably off topic now!