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A moment of empathizing will make it clear that option A is not an option. If I were a recruiter following that method, I would take 5-10 minutes to read someon
by rendall 5y ago
A moment of empathizing will make it clear that option A is not an option. If I were a recruiter following that method, I would take 5-10 minutes to read someone's Github and only then send them a carefully crafted email that takes another 10 minutes, which will be ignored by all but 1 in 100?
I'm fine with ignoring unsolicited emails and politely declining phone calls.
- krageon 5y agoThat means you would hit someone you know is relevant once every workweek (at least) and because you took some time to figure out whether or not they were a match, you can be reasonably certain you can get 1-3 relevant candidates for a position every month. Having known recruiters, these figures are almost unthinkably high. Clearly this is a viable strategy.
- rendall 5y agoOk. Let's assume it is a viable strategy. Recruiters, the people who actually make their living at this - who must make sure their children's teeth are fixed, their houses' leaks are fixed - have an incentive to use the best strategy available. Why then are recruiters not using this strategy, do you think?
- krageon 5y agoThere are plenty of recruiters that do use this strategy.