A story. Someone randomly adds me on LinkedIn. Later, I find myself in a Slack group, of people looking for jobs, with that same someone. In the Slack group, this same someone sprinkles in the high profile tech company they used to work at with nearly every comment. Then that same someone gets a job at a different high profile tech company. I find a role at that same high profile tech company as the same someone. I reach out to this same someone and am told: “I can’t help you.”

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This story is very confusing to me. Why do you think they’d be able to get you a job? It doesn’t sound like they know you or have worked with you. Unfortunately, everyone who is connected to this person probably has asked them for help getting a job, even though they JUST started. I don’t see anything wrong with any of this

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They can just give OP the name of the recruiter. On the bright side, they didn’t say they’d pass OP’s info along and actually do nothing, so there’s that.

Sounds like you sort of projected onto this person a friendship or something. A LinkedIn connection doesn’t really mean much. I have hundreds that I have never spoken a word to. They would be a nice person to help you, but they certainly don’t have to feel obligated to do it

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