Basic Recruiting Stuff, Week 2: JUST COMMUNICATION, BRO
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🚨 Basic Recruiting Stuff, Week 2 🚨
If transactional recruiters were bartenders, half your candidates would be left waiting for their drink, the other half would get a mysterious shot and never see the bartender again.
Welcome to Week 2 of my ‘Basic Recruiting Stuff’ series—your weekly dose of recruiting fundamentals, common pitfalls, and practical solutions from nearly two decades in the search business.
💥This Week’s Focus: The Vanishing Act—Agency Recruiter Ghosting… JK THE TOPIC IS JUST COMMUNICATION, BRO💥
✅ What Should Happen: Agency recruiters should run a tight ship—every candidate gets the real story, real updates, and real closure (not just a LinkedIn “Seen” notification). The wild part? Most recruiters are only funneling outreach to <100 candidates, maybe trading comms with 40%, interviewing 10 (on a good day), and working with a handful, max. The ask isn’t that crazy.
🚩 What Usually Happens: Candidates get love-bombed with urgent messages, then ghosted harder than a bad Tinder date. Recruiters disappear, updates go MIA, and everyone’s left wondering if the search is real or just a plot twist in a bad reality show. Meanwhile, you—the hiring leader—are left with a “trust me” status report and a pipeline emptier than a bar at last call. We literally get candidates asking if we’re real—partly because of our messaging, mostly because this problem is everywhere.
💡 Why It Matters: When candidates get the cold shoulder, your brand’s reputation tanks, top talent bails, and searches stall—leaving everyone with a hangover and nothing to show for it.
🛠️ The Asymmetric Talent Solutions Approach: We don’t play Houdini. Our real-time client portal lays it all out—every candidate, every update, every step. You alert us, we alert you. No fragmented “catch up calls,” no black holes. Candidates get honest communication and closure, you get total visibility, and nobody’s left staring at their phone, waiting for a call that never comes. And yes, we keep nurturing those relationships even after the search—because that’s how grown-ups do it. Even when the average search leads to 500-700 profiles. They ALL get a response.
🎯 The Takeaway: If your recruiter ghosts more than your ex, it’s time for a grown-up search partner. We keep it real, we keep it moving, and we never leave you on read.
