Why Recruiters Dont Call Back

Why Recruiters Dont Call Back Network with recruiters, they said. I did. About 30 of them. It was an exercise in ME reaching out to THEM and rarely hearing anything back from them. I didnt understand the relationship between recruiters and job seekers, nor did I understand the role recruiters play. What is a job seeker to them?  What are their goals?  Understanding those things helped me realize why no one was calling me back. I just read Lisa Rangels 12 Unspoken Reasons Why Recruiters Are Not Calling You Back. She lists 3, and gives you a link to download a paper with the rest.   Anything Ive read from Lisa is great, and worth the time. so go check it out. Heres my answer to why recruiters dont call you back: because you are not a likely candidate to fill a role they have been hired to fill. Its that simple. I thought recruiters were power networkers (which is  phrase from Keith Ferrazzis Never Eat Alone book). Some might be, but many Ive talked to are not good networkers at all. I thought recruiters loved to, and were good at, helping people get hired.  Not really thats not necessarily their job.  Their job is to fill a role not help someone (anyone) get hired.  Ive come to learn that that expectation is as absurd as expecting the butcher at my grocery store to come to my house and cook the meat I bought.  Its just completely, totally outside of what they get paid to do, and even what they are trained to do. When I realized that recruiters didnt call back because they didnt have a role that was perfect for me, and they never would call back unless I was going to help them fill a role, I moved on. I stopped forcing networking with these supposedly great networking contacts, and networked with other people. Doing this was mentally liberating. My expectations and hopes, with regard to relationships with recruiters, was more realistic. And I spent time where I needed to. How about you are you ready to move on from networking with recruiters? Why Recruiters Dont Call Back Network with recruiters, they said. I did. About 30 of them. It was an exercise in ME reaching out to THEM and rarely hearing anything back from them. I didnt understand the relationship between recruiters and job seekers, nor did I understand the role recruiters play. What is a job seeker to them?  What are their goals?  Understanding those things helped me realize why no one was calling me back. I just read Lisa Rangels 12 Unspoken Reasons Why Recruiters Are Not Calling You Back. She lists 3, and gives you a link to download a paper with the rest.   Anything Ive read from Lisa is great, and worth the time. so go check it out. Heres my answer to why recruiters dont call you back: because you are not a likely candidate to fill a role they have been hired to fill. Its that simple. I thought recruiters were power networkers (which is  phrase from Keith Ferrazzis Never Eat Alone book). Some might be, but many Ive talked to are not good networkers at all. I thought recruiters loved to, and were good at, helping people get hired.  Not really thats not necessarily their job.  Their job is to fill a role not help someone (anyone) get hired.  Ive come to learn that that expectation is as absurd as expecting the butcher at my grocery store to come to my house and cook the meat I bought.  Its just completely, totally outside of what they get paid to do, and even what they are trained to do. When I realized that recruiters didnt call back because they didnt have a role that was perfect for me, and they never would call back unless I was going to help them fill a role, I moved on. I stopped forcing networking with these supposedly great networking contacts, and networked with other people. Doing this was mentally liberating. My expectations and hopes, with regard to relationships with recruiters, was more realistic. And I spent time where I needed to. How about you are you ready to move on from networking with recruiters? Why Recruiters Dont Call Back Network with recruiters, they said. I did. About 30 of them. It was an exercise in ME reaching out to THEM and rarely hearing anything back from them. I didnt understand the relationship between recruiters and job seekers, nor did I understand the role recruiters play. What is a job seeker to them?  What are their goals?  Understanding those things helped me realize why no one was calling me back. I just read Lisa Rangels 12 Unspoken Reasons Why Recruiters Are Not Calling You Back. She lists 3, and gives you a link to download a paper with the rest.   Anything Ive read from Lisa is great, and worth the time. so go check it out. Heres my answer to why recruiters dont call you back: because you are not a likely candidate to fill a role they have been hired to fill. Its that simple. I thought recruiters were power networkers (which is  phrase from Keith Ferrazzis Never Eat Alone book). Some might be, but many Ive talked to are not good networkers at all. I thought recruiters loved to, and were good at, helping people get hired.  Not really thats not necessarily their job.  Their job is to fill a role not help someone (anyone) get hired.  Ive come to learn that that expectation is as absurd as expecting the butcher at my grocery store to come to my house and cook the meat I bought.  Its just completely, totally outside of what they get paid to do, and even what they are trained to do. When I realized that recruiters didnt call back because they didnt have a role that was perfect for me, and they never would call back unless I was going to help them fill a role, I moved on. I stopped forcing networking with these supposedly great networking contacts, and networked with other people. Doing this was mentally liberating. My expectations and hopes, with regard to relationships with recruiters, was more realistic. And I spent time where I needed to. How about you are you ready to move on from networking with recruiters?