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If I Was a Recruiter, I Would Do This

Duncan Riach
4 min readJan 23, 2019

I had a long conversation with some recruiters in a bar at Lake Tahoe in Nevada recently. They told me how challenging the work is and that they never get a break because they’re always having to follow-up on leads with potential candidates. They told me that all the normal channels of communication, such as LinkedIn, are swamped with recruiters. This makes it hard for them to stand out. I told them what I would do to solve the problem, and I’ll reveal that to you in this article.

I personally get head-hunted like crazy. I get several messages per day on LinkedIn and by email from recruiters trying to tempt me to go work somewhere else. Am I bragging? Not really, I’m just revealing to you where I have skin in this game. It’s not better to be recruited all the time, it’s not like they’re offering me a job; they’re just potentially starting a conversation that might lead to them getting a commission or meeting some key performance indicator. Part of me does feel good about being head-hunted though. It leads me to believe that perhaps I have options, even though I’m sure that I would not be a good fit for most of those apparent opportunities.

Sometimes, when I get around to sorting through the mountain of messages on LinkedIn, I will respond with, “Thank you for reaching out, but I’m not interested in moving to a different company at the moment.”

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Duncan Riach
Duncan Riach

Written by Duncan Riach

Top Writer. Self-Revealing. Mental Health. Success. Fulfillment. Flow. MS Engineering/Technology. PhD Psychology. duncanriach.com

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