Look - I don’t need a job. My job is great, the pay is good, manager buys me stuff, but recruiters still hit up my Linkedin a couple times a month and I say pretty much the same thing -
Hi X,
Do you have the compensation range for this role? I'm looking for something in the 140-160k range at the moment
If they don’t reply or say “no”, I don’t care. If they do reply, why not? Worst case scenario I don’t take the job.
But you see, this doesn’t actually work. Whether or not they can afford the range, these energy vampires try to string me along.
I just had a recruiter message me, we did this chit chat, then 15 minutes before our call she asked for my resume. Oh ok, guess you didn’t see it front and centre on my Linkedin. I send her my resume and… No call. No more replies. Well I came home early from the gym for nothing.
Tl;dr Math.min(answerRecruiter, doNothing) can return less than 0. Documentation does not make this clear.
they’re parasites.
though good agents do exist, they are rare. and you won’t fund them cold calling you on linked in.
they find and collect job offers, and send them to people without the employer’s knowledge.
they also like to collect CVs, and often send the CVs to employers without asking you.
so they are fishing on both ends of the line. they hassle people about employers who are not interested in hiring them. and they hassle employers about people who are not interested in working for them.
but just once in a blue moon, they might get lucky and get someone a job, just through shear persistence. and then the commission can be huge, like 10,000euro or more. but to get that one happy coincidence he’s wasted thousands of people’s time.
everyone gets fooled the first time and learns this stuff from experience.