Why do recruiters from great companies reach out and when you cave & respond showing interest, they decide to ghost you? I wasn’t even looking anyway!!!

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You know what “chum” is? Fish guts. Fishermen will throw it in the water to attract fish. That’s what recruiters do, they chum the water. How many similar messages do you think he/she sent out?Their goal isn’t to recruit you, it’s to recruit someone. Other fish just got noticed first.

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