Is it just me or have recruiters been exceptionally awful lately? I had two recruiters reach out to me - one from a recruiting firm and one from a bank - both of whom ghosted me after initially contacting me about jobs I was 100% interested in.

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Yes, that has been my experience for the last year. If they're not making regular, proactive contact with you, you're not on their list to hire

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I never trust recruiters, they are only aligned with your interests if they are looking to hire. Besides that, they have no manners and will ghost you, even if you had multiple rounds

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Exactly they sound nice at first and you don’t hear anything again from them. It’s made me reluctant and now I believe that’s the only time I’ll get to talk to them as they don’t get back.

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Graduated in April with my PharmD/MBA degrees. I did two great biopharma internships, had my resume professionally edited, perfected my interview skills and started applying to jobs in January. I have talked to 20 plus recruiters maybe 3 have actually gotten me interviews the rest ghost me. I had an amazing interview last week (legit the guy told me they want a 3rd interview and it’s been a week and I texted him and never heard back. What am I supposed to do? I want a remote biopharma job :/

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Feeling that I never land an offer from Google. I have tried many times and in my last try, I passed phone screening but recruiter ghosted me...
I am not sure what is wrong...
When I apply with referral, my resume always pass screening and shared with managers. But then no response.
When I get feedback on my resume and experience, people always mention "impressive". I feel desperate...Being in less challenging role at Amazon makes everything worse.

I am Finance Analyst. Any suggestions? Ideas

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Hi fishes
I was supposed to have my
Amazon Round 3 interview in the first week of May but the interviewer didn't join. My recruiter didn't reply for a few days and then rescheduled it.
Even in this rescheduled interview, my interviewer didn't join. This time my recruiter joined and said she'll reschedule my interview.
She still hasn't done that even after a follow up.
Is this common? Is this some kind of patience test?
I have no clue but I'm really frustrated at this point.
Please suggest

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Hello recruiters! How do you feel about people reaching out to you directly on LinkedIn?

I am a 15+ yr digital marketing/comms guy trying to be proactive about my next job without being weird. There are a few companies I would LOVE to work for and frankly just want to tell them.

I’ll post a draft note of what I was thinking in the comments so you get a sense of how I would approach this.

thanks in advance for any advice.

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