Has anyone had much success reaching out to a company's talent acquisition/hiring recruiter and getting a response? As I'm trying to follow all of the "rules" out there on job seeking, networking on LinkedIn and reaching out to such folks is common advice. However, not getting a response is pretty common as well. Is this actually working for anyone and what are you doing different?

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I think LinkedIn might be over with if I'm being honest. Nobody responds to anybody else there at all and I think that that's a product of all the spam mail that is found on the site

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some companies use LinkedIn to collect information and then you start receiving different emails... Nobody responds on LinkedIn

I've contacted recruiters who generally don't help much. If they are external recruiters they say they'll call you back but don't. If they are internal recruiters they say "look up the job on our company website, forward your resume and the req number, and I'll submit you to our database". What do they do that's helpful exactly? The one thing I do use them for is if I see that they were recently hired its a good sign that the company may be looking to hire.

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I've had more luck through recruiters than anything else. A combination of glassdoor, linkedin, indeed, and company recruitment profiles is how I've been successful with contacts.

Finding a good recruiter is like finding a needle in a haystack. I didn't capture the metrics but I would say 1 in 25 recruiters was helpful for me. The rest didn't care about my resume or the position. They were looking for a placement commission and nothing else.

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I mean I have reached out to recruiters many tiems and you still get the ghosting and not hearing back. Obviously if they are a good recruiter that is not the case but I have noticed lately that a lot of them are really bad at ghosting.

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