[duxup]

On my last job hunt the vast majority of recruiters ghosted me. Even those promising a call back ... that day.

Often I've heard time cited as a factor, but these same recruiters sometimes spoke to me for an hour. Yet even a semi impersonal email was too much to hope for I guess.

I just assume at any moment any recruiter / company HR contact may be my last.

Sadly it is a vicious cycle now as recruiter spam is so prevalent that now I don't have time to bother with with them or respond to them as soon as I think they're not really paying attention / holding up their end of the conversation / the job sound bad, and so forth.

It's all just noise.

[rightbyte]

It is a race to the bottom. A vicious cycle of applying and recruiting being more and more spammy. If n positions consider n candidates who all apply for all the n positions we have the end game where no choices can be made and closing a position is played by dice.

[duxup]

Yeah that's what I fear too. It's just a super thick meta game that gets denser all the time.

The 'hiring people industrial complex' is just a huge amount of work... and I'm not sure anyone is good at doing that thing, so they add more layers, more recruiters and everyone is farther from each other.