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Recruiters refusing to share job descriptions before phone calls

🧭 worksocial problemSingle report ●●●●● severity 2/5

A LinkedIn user reports that recruiters are increasingly unwilling to send full job descriptions without first having a phone call, which the user finds makes calls less worthwhile.

Who's affected: A LinkedIn user contacted by recruiters

⚠️ Single report. This is one person's account. We mark it so until more voices confirm it.

What people do today

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Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:

  1. A browser extension that allows users to request a standardized 'Job Fact Sheet' from recruiters before scheduling a call.
  2. A professional networking platform feature that mandates a 'Job Summary' field for recruiter outreach messages.
  3. A template library for candidates to professionally insist on receiving job details before committing to a screening call.
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Real voices

“recruiters now tend to be unwilling to send over a job description for a role they're recruiting for, without first having a phone call”

Source: Stack Exchange (workplace) · CC BY-SA 4.0, user-contributed content from Stack Exchange; summarized and modified

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