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It’s a Friday night and you’re out with your crew. You walk up to the bar to get a refill when all of a sudden you feel someone playfully bump into you and lean against the bar right next you.
“Hi! I’m Amy! What brings you to *insert city name here*?”
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“Oh really? That’s so interesting, your job sounds so cool! Sooooo, what are you drinking?”
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“Oh my gosh, me too!”
Now, it’s been a hot minute since an interaction with another person of the opposite sex went like that for me because I’m locked down, hard. BUT, those times years ago (although few and far between) when I the beneficiary of some flirting action, it always felt great. Getting hit on is an instant confident booster. You feel like the biggest baller in the room. Someone just came up to you, out of everyone else at the bar or at the party, and made the first move, completely unprovoked.
There really is nothing quite like it. That is until you check your inbox one day and find one of these game changers.
Subject: Doesn’t Hurt To Look For A New Role
Hi _______,
I came across your info and I wanted to see if you are interested in exploring new career opportunities.
Now’s a great time to make a career move.
In fact, I’m working on filling a __________ position for a client in Houston, TX.
If you’re interested, please shoot over a quick response with your most updated resume or apply through the link below!
Hoping to help you with your next great role!
Thanks,
Chase
BOOM. Just like that, you’re having an inner monologue and checking over your shoulder every couple seconds to make sure no one sees you’re being lured away right under their nose.
Damn, Chase, you move fast! I wasn’t even looking for a new position. I am definitely not trying to move halfway across the country. But you’ve got me thinking. What else is out there? Could there be better? And how did you get my contact information? I have like, 140 connections on LinkedIn. My profile hasn’t been updated in over 6 months. I haven’t even applied to anything in 3 years. I had to unsubscribed from Monster emails because it was all spam. But here you are. Out of the blue, making me feel wanted.
And just like that you’re on top of the world. It would have been just another day at the office. You were trudging through you day just like everyone else in the office. You were pounding coffee to get through the afternoon because lunch was making you drowsy. But now the whole situation changed. This job doesn’t have to be your only option. People want you. You are desirable. You’re a hot commodity. Those other chumps sitting there in their cubes are second rate number-crunchers. They may be closing minor deals. But you, you ARE the fucking deal. You are someone’s next commission. They don’t want you, they need you. And that, is a high unlike any other.
To hell with the cocktails, the high heels, and small talk. That’s a hard pass on the drunken sexual advances of other. You don’t want to deal with the awkwardness of the morning after anyways. You’ll take a headhunter sliding into your gmail over someone hitting on you any day of the week, and twice on Sunday..
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Nothing like getting that head hunter email about a new job and spending the rest of your day planning out how baller your new life will be with this job.
Not getting the job you were head hunter for. PGP.
GF is a headhunter. Am I being cuckolded?
Well she hunts head so yeah probably.
I’m the opposite.
I hate getting those emails.
The only headhunting that matters is for the upper echelon (CEO, upper management roles) and since that’s not happening anytime soon, everything else is essentially spam.
Yeah, this article has the same attitude I had senior year when the recruiter emails started pouring in. Now I recognize it’s just career spam.
None of these emails can offer me a job better than the one I have now.
It’s just amateur recruiters making cold calls essentially.
In my field its all BS contract jobs doing the shit backend work that nobody else wants to do.
Recruiter here. Wish most people were as flattered as you.
Headhunting at our level is more or less like the dude who sends a thousand “Hi” messages on dating apps.
Sure, maybe it’s a fleeting confidence booster to be noticed, but then you realize that they’re just doing the bare minimum to get a certain number of resumes in front of a client.
Initially read this as “…but getting head is better.”
Picture makes that headline even better
This just happened to me and this is exactly what I felt like. And then I called the recruiter and made salary demands I am nowhere near qualified for and they agreed to them. WTF is happening. Is this how deal closers feel?
Kind of funny story. I had an internship before my senior year of college at a farm on the outskirts of the Chicago suburbs. About 2 years after I graduated I get an email from a headhunter looking to fill a position, and from the description of the job the only place it could be was the farm I interned at. I texted my former boss to see if they were hiring just to be sure it was them. Come to find out I was being headhunted to be my former boss’s boss.
IMO, don’t go for the recruiter who cold-called you unless you’re really trying to change your career in a very significant way. Instead, look for organic networking opportunities, or people within your current sphere who know you do a hell of a job and would like to sneakily steal you away from your current employer. It’s much more flattering when you know they want your for the quality of your work. Examples include PE/Hedge exit opportunities for I-bankers, full-time roles with former clients for a consultant (often your employer will let you go to keep up relationship with the client), or just a bigger/better competitor hiring you away in your corporate finance gig
This. In my experience, recruiters who cold call are to be avoided like the plague. I’m an attorney, and they end up calling everyone in a department to see who’ll bite, and they frequently have no idea what the market is like.