Stephen Bosco’s Post

I love how some recruiters are loving and supporting this post but also left me hanging in their DMs 😅

THIS SO MUCH. I have a list in my head of folks that have done this multiple times

Most people don’t know this, but when recruiters are using their LI Recruiter license, they don’t get all their messages and rarely log into their personal LI account. Its 2 separate accounts tied to the same persons profile. I got laid off, and logged into my personal account and couldn’t believe all the messages I’d missed! It’s bad people skills to ghost people, no doubt about it, but there might be reasons why this has happened. LinkedIn is not the best platform, which is why I leave my email available as an alternative for connections to be able to reach me. So sorry this happened to you. I usually give people the benefit of the doubt, knowing what it’s like to have 300 emails in my inbox to wake up to, and be short staffed due to layoffs. Thank you for bringing some attention to this, for an open dialogue. I know some terrible recruiters but most of the ones I’ve worked with are really great people who try. Candidate experience is so important and those of us who care, really try to keep making it better!

You're right on the money & this is the type of transactional garbage that completely ruins any chance for those of us that are relational + give a damn about what we do for this industry. I do not blame you, not in the slightest for calling this out. It just pisses me off to see it come back around so public.

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True, if your ghosting a potential candidate, you have to consider the hell your putting them in.

And how they would treat candidates on your behalf..

Unfortunately this seems more the rule than the exception, especially with recruiters in the gaming space -- whether it's ghosting, making up bullshit excuses for why opportunities disappear, or presenting candidates with completely inappropriate roles. It's also always striking how stupidly transparent it usually is.

Always treat people the way you want to be treated is my motto not just personally but professionally too. Always. Karma is real. And helping people without anything in return is sometimes the best way for karma to work. It’s a tough market out there. But totally valid with what you’re saying and I agree completely man.

It's nice to see more posts outing the nastiness of 2nd and 3rd party agencies abusing the system as much as they do. I find it helps marking those ones spam as that is essentially what they are. Most won't even research a potential applicants skillset AND location before putting eggs in all baskets. Hang in there buddy. There are some good ones among the dime a dozen recruiters.