A junior associate at big law here. When you get emails from recruiters asking for a call to discuss new opportunities, do you respond declining or do you just not respond? What’s the norm? Do you respond to cold emails?

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I don’t respond at all. They are blasting out these emails, no need to respond unless interested

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Don’t respond unless you’re interested. You’ll get multiple in a day as your career goes on. Sometimes they screw up and CC (rather than bcc) so you see the other 500 people on the email, including classmates and friends.

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I had a recruiter screw up and send me an email thread identifying all the firms he was emailing about.

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If you have time to respond, thats a sign that you should be billing more.

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I’m a recruiter but my firm doesn’t do blast emails very often. But anyway we never “expect” a response so it’s fine to not respond. But it’s also fine to respond if you think you might be interested. Never hurts to take a 5 min phone call. This is a great time to be looking.

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Why don’t recruiters try to actually identify good candidates or send jobs that people might be interested in, instead of throwing darts? I’m born and raised in New York, and work in big law litigation in New York, so no - I’m not interested in that m&a job in Tulsa!

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