Are any third party recruiters actually worth responding to? I look them up and I only hear bad things (parker and lynch, southwest search, sni financial, etc).

Everything from pushing unwanted positions, lower salaries than requested, contacting your current company (???), and whatever else comes with these people.

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I used them to feel out the job market and get interview practice while I looked for positions and salaries I actually wanted. These recruiting firms want to make you take lateral transfers so if you can get interviews at the next level you can ask what gaps you have in your resume. Think of it as free market research while you plan out next steps.

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I have not had a positive experience with any of them. I have used more than 5. When I was job searching, I had 3 recruiters working in parallel at least and in two separate instances, I have landed job offers while they came up with nothing and no help at all.

In one instance, I was told point blank by a recruiter that my experience is irrelevant and I should downgrade my search from manager to associate level positions (I was a B4 valuations manager trying to make a lateral jump). The job offer I got was for a senior manager level with a 45% pay bump. These recruiters are garbage.

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E1- totally agree

P1- Corp dev senior manager at a public company

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If you’re referring to the LinkedIn private messages we get all the time, I usually just say thank you, but I’m happy in my current role so I don’t burn a bridge, just in case you do eventually want to reach out to them.

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