Some HR and recruiters are not needed since they are hiring far less people nowadays.
If you're a recruiter, I'd start looking and then you will also know know what it feels like to get lied to and strung along for months only to find out the position you applied for and was hopeful to be hired for was never going to be filled.
It's a fluff job that can be outsourced when the need recruiting resources. S---s to be a recruiter at BNYM.