Two recruiters, Bob and Susan, walk into a bar and sit down for a drink after work on Monday. One table over are some engineers who are venting about their manager at company XYZ. It's clear that are not happy with their manager.

The first recruiter, Bob, finishes his drink and leaves the bar. The next morning Bob checks out the engineers on LinkedIn, Google and ZoomInfo. Once Bob finds an email address for one of the engineers he sends that engineer a request to connect on LinkedIn and then forward some job descriptions to the candidates using Jobster. A day later, one of the engineers opens the Jobster email but does not apply to the job or forward it onto anyone. Bob emails the engineer and asked if they can have a phone conversation the next day.

When Bob gets the engineer on the phone he begins to tell him about some position he has open that might interest the engineer. The engineer tells Bob he appreciates the call, but he just accepted another job.

Bob asks, when did this happen?

 

The engineer says, on Monday night a recruiter by the name of Susan sat down with me and my co-works over drinks and told us about some positions with great managers she works with. She invited us all into her office the next day to meet with the managers and I decided to accept an offer on Wednesday.

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