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Always bizarre to me that recruiters can be gatekeepers to creative roles
Everywhere I’ve been, no one’s gatekeeping anything. Typically, recruiters send links to books, and at the same time they have an intro meeting. Not their fault if CDs then say no thanks.
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What do you have to lose? They’ll ghost you. Again? Remember, you can only die once.
So much haunting going on, but you’re right.
To me, it’s just an email and maybe, just maybe, a chance to connect with a person who is looking for the right candidate. I just don’t know if this would be intrusive, and yet—-the ghosting was rude, so I’m feeling okay about sidestepping her. You never know what will backfire though.
Unless I’m misunderstanding what 86 means, what use is a headhunter that ghosts or doesn’t follow up anyway? Bad etiquette.
Pro
Do it gingerly but know that if they don’t write back, they’re no longer intetrsted
I had this happen with a recruiter that told me they’d pass me on, and to be patient as they try to schedule an interview with the CD who was quite busy. Weeks later and after two follow up attempts, I got an email that they had selected another more qualified candidate. It led me to believe that the CD didn’t like my work as much and decided not to follow up with the interview. Getting ghosted sucks because it traps you in limbo, so I understand the temptation. As others have said, just be careful if it is a recruiter you may encounter again.
I truly hope I don’t encounter her again. I think I did well, but the questions were clearly non-conversational and generic. I haven’t come across a recruiter with her level of experience who has to resort to textbook questions in many, many years.
Chief
Ah, seeing that it’s an internal recruiter, I wouldn’t go around them. If you haven’t heard back, it’s because either they are slow or they’ve seen your work and aren’t interested. Sorry to say.
That would take a serious set of balls to do that. Curious what others say.
Curious what a CD would say about this situation commenting to see the answer
Did you only interview with the recruiter? Or also the CD? Internal agency recruiter or external. If external and you never met with the CD, you don’t have much to lose unless you want to work with the external recruiter again.
I only spoke with the recruiter who is internal, unfortunately.