Marks and Cobb Scam: I’ve had two separate “Managing Director[s] of Legal Recruiting” at Marks & Cobb reach out to my work email letting my know a client if theirs specifically asked for me to interview. I had a recruiter call, they named a real person at a real big law firm as requesting me, yet they went dark as soon as I sent them my resume. Anyone else fall for this? Is this indeed a scam?

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Don’t work with random recruiters. Always ask for referrals.

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I don’t know why so many of my peers have to be awful

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Especially with UK-based search firms, they are trained to "recruit" this way. When I was an internal recruiter, the UK search firms would like to us about candidates' other offers, actually call partners to pressure them to hire, lie to us about signing bonuses, and were generally so dishonest that we could never close a deal with them because they lied to the candidates about what we could offer as well (i.e. no meeting of the minds because both sides were being lied to). This behavior came from multiple UK-based search firms.

Also rule of thumb is that if they ask for your resume that partner never asked for you specifically

This happened to me with a different recruiting firm - I don’t get it either.

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