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My interactions with recruiters have generally been similar. I think it must be a numbers game where basically they just "spray and pray" and only engage the mo
by version_five 5y ago
My interactions with recruiters have generally been similar. I think it must be a numbers game where basically they just "spray and pray" and only engage the most dedicated prospects that they trawl up. I'm surprised the recruiter didn't just ghost him. That's what's happened to me whenever I say I'm not looking but happy to chat.
- dilyevsky 5y ago“Happy to chat” is just part of their sales script same as the fake concern wrt covid and whatnot etc. Never had anyone agree to chat when I’d actually taken them up on that.
- version_five 5y agoMy job is 20-50% sales. I would always take a first call with someone who knew what my job was and wanted to talk to me. It makes me curious about recruiting, are they really spending their time on higher value stuff? Like I said above, my guess is it's a numbers game, more telemarketing than relationship building, at least for people cold-messaging on LinkedIn.
- dilyevsky 5y agoIt’s true - I’ve had much better luck setting up purely exploratory calls with actual sales than recruiting. Not sure why that is, perhaps recruiters’ commission is maximized by the steady flow of smaller “deals” vs sales where they prefer to score big ones