Several times over the past month, I’ve received unsolicited messages from recruiters (both from recruitment agencies and who work for companies directly) on LinkedIn, taken assessments, gone through multiple interviews, only to either get rejected or ghosted. It’s absolutely awful that they would reach out, and then leave me hanging. I mean, THEY reached to ME for my expertise. They need me, so theoretically they should pay for my time.
….So I thought “Fuck it! I’ll do just that.”
I went to Calendly.com and made a free account and integrated my PayPal, my calendar, and Google account to it. I then created a basic 30 minute meeting with a $50 mandatory fee.
Now, whenever a recruiter reaches out and I know the job isn’t for me (or if it’s crap), I send them my Calendly link with a friendly message saying “Sure! Here’s my availability.”
Obviously nobody is ever going to pay the fee, I’m just petty and jaded as fuck. And I only do this for bad jobs/companies. If it’s a potentially good place to work, I be happy to talk to them free of charge.