Hi WSO,
When I say "baited messages," I'm talking about instances when recruiters send messages that are purposefully vague in order to pique your curiosity and encourage a response. For example, you may receive a message saying that you are a good fit for a role for "at a F500 client in a [insert exciting-sounding heading] role/department."
After reading a message like this, you know that a job exists, but know nothing about the actual company or job title. Anyways, I tend to reply to messages like these with my email address because there is no reason not to find out, but 99% of the time the solicitations are for companies I've never heard of, don't want to work for, or are overall pretty low-tier jobs.
Is there a way to politely tell the recruiter that I only responded out of curiosity and now that I know what the job/company is I'm no longer interested? It's never a good idea to be rude to recruiters, but it's almost unavoidable at this point. Should I just go ghost-mode and not respond?
Any thoughts are appreciated.
Send them a picture of your batwing.
If a recruiter is cold e-mailing you or sending you spam mails about vague positions, it's not a recruiter you should be interested in a relationship with (either as hirer or job seeker) and I'd ignore them. At the point they are sending spam like that (ie lowest common denominator, wide net fishing), you're on a list of 100+ recipients and they don't have much bargaining power in the relationship. You don't need to crave their approval.
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