Back in the day, a recruiter built relationships with both client and candidate pool, made sure the folks presented were good candidates for the job, and made s

Back in the day, a recruiter built relationships with both client and candidate pool, made sure the folks presented were good candidates for the job, and made sure the process moved forward smoothly, so ghosting would be bad for business. Now, the vast majority of 'recruiters' (esp those on the big job sites) are just spammers with a nicer job title and somewhat more paperwork to process: got an email someone wants 'python programmer', search the big job sites and internal database for resumes and bulk send them to the hiring manager. They don't even have to call to set up the interview...there's a website for that. There's no relationship, so who cares it you piss on them. My ex was a technical recruiter for 20+ years at a number of marquee tech firms, and it was sad to see her job go from well respected matchmaker between client and candidate making sure there was a good fit to 'run the search, blast the email, go to next request in the queue'. Which as collateral damage meant she was no more useful to the firm than a fresh out of college new hire making a fraction as much. You can imagine how that ended.