Re:Targeted Bets: An alternative approach to the job hunt
by hosh on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @11:19AM
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I got a chance to talk to one of the recruiters at my company, informally. One takeaway is that it really depends on the type of work. Even now, there are work where a recruiter has to source - personally go out to seek specific candidates. Referals are even more important here.
I don't know, but I can't imagine the person whose job is not to look at resumes at all is going to do any better.
There's a tragedy of the commons thing here. It might work if people are getting one inbound email a week and they like reading them. Once it becomes common wisdom, suddenly J Random Employee has dozens of incoming cold emails distracting from their work. So all of them go in the bin.