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Because then he couldn't write a blog post that is partially a thinly-veiled brag about how much he gets hit up for jobs!


And oh, man you should see the amount of junk mail and spam I get too!

Be jealous of how frequently telemarketers call me!

You nailed it, ace.


What is the intent of the blog post tho, if not just some vanity thing? Are you expecting recruiters to read this, are you forwarding this link to recruiters who send you emails? It feels like what you're saying is most likely not going to reach, or have an effect, on the intended audience.


Every interview I take, if I don't get offered the job, I ask for feedback on what I should have done in my past to take the job. Why did I fail? What should I be working on?

This post is that answer for recruiters. I've typed it out individually, over and over again, in response to bad pitches, highlighting what they did wrong and how they could have succeeded or saved themselves time.

This is a time-consuming thing for me to do, but I feel it's justified if it helps even one recruiter. So this is my shorthand way of handling it--just link them to the post instead of rewriting it for every single recruiter.

Most will ignore it. Maybe all will ignore it. But if a recruiter is sincerely trying to do a good job, it will provide them with useful information as to why their pitch was ineffective and how to improve it.

If I was a recruiter, this is the kind of feedback I'd want from someone I was trying to recruit, so this is the kind of feedback I offer to people trying to recruit me.


:)




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