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Good points. I was under the impression that this was referring to a scenario where you send a résumé to a recruiter ad, and you either get a reply that the job

by fecak 14y ago

Good points. I was under the impression that this was referring to a scenario where you send a résumé to a recruiter ad, and you either get a reply that the job was filled (a lie here) or no reply at all (impolite if you were qualified). No time wasted with dialogue or advertising. This may be a uk thing, as I don't think firms here in the US tell you that you need to bring your friends if you want to deal. Never heard of that.

ZachPruckowski 14y ago
The friends thing he's talking about is taking your reference contacts and then using them as future leads. And there is a fixed cost to sending a resume and cover letter. Sure, the first one isn't such a pain, but if you're unemployed and sending out 30 resumes, it's sort of a pain if 10 of them are fake, and another 5-10 are duplicates of different recruiters trying to fill the same position. It increases the work I have to do, and provides an awful lot of false hope. Again - one recruiter doing that amid a sea of legit openings isn't all that bad, but in larger markets it's not just one recruiter misbehaving.