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10 Tips for Pinging the Recruiter

Every couple of days I get a call from a person who is out of work or thinks they are at the edge. They are either alerting me to the fact that they are going to send me a resume or they are following up on one they sent.

I have no problem with the phone calls. It permits a moment to chat, it gives them a chance to position themselves and it allows me a moment to set their expectations.

What drives me nuts is the pushy type that wants to take 10-20 minutes to tell me about every accomplishment in their career before I can get a word in edgewise. They seem to think they have some mystical power to convince me that they are truly wonderful and I …

My best friend is a financial director for a person in the US Congress. On a recent mailing, the response rate was less than .5%. Now a good direct response person would say that the list or the offer was bad. I happen to believe that the addresses were good; I can’t attest to the message.
This instance does remind me of the fact that people don’t respond to my messages. I sent out 37 in-mails in Linked In and I only received 12 responses. The addresses were good and the offer, from my vantage point, had no negatives.

This all brings me to a question: why don’t people return calls and …