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..and how will you be able to obtain the contact info for half a dozen former FT's from a place you are trying to do research on? Normally, you'd be lucky to get the emails of a couple of former ft's who have worked there.

Yes you are dead right; most will be reluctant to even give you one e-mail; but we don't want to work for most schools do we; so after we have made no bones about it that it's a deal-breaker if they won't even give you e-mail contacts; if they still don't, you move on. The object of the exercise is, is to find a bit of a rarity I agree. E-mail addresses will do-you can ask FT's for phone numbers. You also must give good schools a little time(a day) to ask FT's for permission to hand out their contact details. No No, the recruiter only does some of the work and the rest you must do yourself...or risk...