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To begin with, the average recruiter was hired in the last three months and will last three more months before looking for a new job. They have been equipped with a series of templates and told to customize them.

The goal of the recruiter is to make money by acquiring a candidate, presenting them to a company, and having the company hire them. Note that the recruiter does not actually work for the hiring company -- they have no relationship with them whatsoever, yet. The recruiter's company is paying a minimal salary with an additional fee based on the salary of the candidates who get hired through this process. A particularly scummy recruiting company pays no salary at all, and considers the recruiters to be independent contractors. The recruiter's company has someone in the back office who is manually or automatically scraping Indeed, Dice, Monster, whatever in order to get job listings.

At this point you can see that a recruiter is a speculative spammer.



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