Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter

Post by CRConrad » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 8:44 PM UTC

TameAntelope wrote: post #595

pwinnski wrote: post #592

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm with you on your core assertion, about leveraging personal social networks in hiring leading to reinforcing systemic racism and cultural biases. But in this context, you used "nepotism" to mean "people one knows" and then leaned even further into saying it didn't mean "close relationships" but any relationships. That's just not what that word means, not how it's commonly used either. So that assertion is wrong.

I cited two separate definitions, at this point you're disagreeing with not just me, but my citations as well, which makes it hard for me to take what you're saying here and make any changes to what I understand the word to mean. I'm not sure a) why you think you have authority here, or b) why it's such a sticking point to the point that you've continued this conversation for over an entire day. I think at this point…

Post by CRConrad » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 11:28 PM UTC

ghostoftiber wrote: post #250

I like forcing recruiters to voicemail. It's the same for email. This doesn't mean I am ignoring them but it does give me a way to filter who I even reply to. If they send me a badly written, very generic email for something like Helpdesk Level 1, something I'm not even doing or isn't on my resume, or CEO of Company X for $10/hr, I don't even reply. The voicemail works the same way - if they can't seem to render a se…