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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good grief, you sound like a high maintenance candidate. I was a recruiter (not legal) for many years. Confidential placements for roles in which someone is getting fired are delicate. Asking you for a call is not something to be suspicious of. As someone said above, it is just easier to talk to someone than type out questions. Jeesh, if you were my potential candidate, I would probably drop you because you sound exhausting. Three recruiter calls for an executive level role is nothing, expecially if the client is expecting a dossier on the candidates (more than a resume). I had a client that required extensive write ups for all candidates presented which required me to actually talk to the candidate.[/quote]

Op here. You’re nasty but also wrong. I noticed you skimmed past the scenario I mentioned which does happen.

Unfortunately there are a lot of scammers among recruiters. It took me awhile to remember, but I’ve had a similar scam happen to my co. Recruiter we have worked with in the past sees we have a new job post and then reaches out to people ‘I work with Co A and they’re looking for someone for Job B’. But we did not engage the recruiter for this search. I only found out bc they somehow got a phone number for and texted a colleague/friend of mine. And before you say ‘they worked to find this person and deserve a fee!’, the colleague they reached out to was literally a former employee at my company. Pretty sure we could have found her on our own.

In my case, in addition to this vague thing about the company, the job spec I saw was uniquely thin, no comp attached to it in writing (illegal where I live), and then of course repeated refusal to identity anything specific to my resume that is a concern and just wanting ‘to chat’. 
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