THE GOVERNMENT DOESNT HAVE ANY MONEY

I have no idea how this effects recruiters, but my agency had to delay making a hiring decision due to the shutdown, and just called people today with their decisions.

Maybe the recruiter is waiting on someone at the agency and keeps tabling your emails until they hear back?

It might be worth a polite phone call.

Anonymous wrote:Recruiters are SO RUDE. I have been contacted several times by in-house recruiters for various companies (not after applying for a position, they sought out me), sent them my resume, and then just never heard anything again. It is bizarre and really leaves a bad impression for the company they work for.

Recruiters get paid on a commission (or partial commission). Once you are no good to them, you are a waste of time. Sad but true.

Some recruiters I suppose tried to send a "sorry, we moved in another direction" email/phone call, and got entangled with a frustrated job seeker for much longer than needed.

IMO
The recruiter does owe failed candidates a 30-second email if he/she has been talking to you for several emails/phone calls.

The recruiter doesn't owe failed candidates a lengthy phone conversation.

Recruiters are SO RUDE. I have been contacted several times by in-house recruiters for various companies (not after applying for a position, they sought out me), sent them my resume, and then just never heard anything again. It is bizarre and really leaves a bad impression for the company they work for.

Same thing happened to me. When I finally got a hold of the recruiter they told me that government client had to make "cuts" due to the shutdown so everyone's salary was cut and hours were increased (i had signed a job offer for a part-time job). Because of this, I was forced to not take it even though I had waited six months for the job to start and signed a job offer. It really sucked.

Same here. I was working with a recruiter for a position, went to interview with him, took a skills exam to rate my skills which he said I scored very high on, and he said that he woudl forward my resume to the client and then...crickets. I've left 3 messages and send 2 emails and no response. I just assume that the client company either found someone for the job or declined to interview me and the recruiter was being a jerk not calling me back to let me know (after over a week of constant contact). Since my original asking price was 5% over what they had originally wanted to spend and we had come to a compromise value that they would be willing to pay and I would be willing to accept, my guess is that they reconsidered and didn't want to go outside their original offering.

Good luck to you.

Call her.

Before the shutdown, I had been emailing back and forth with a recruiter from a government contractor about an open position she had. She had wanted to bring me to interview for the position, and then the shutdown occurred. I've been trying to get back and touch with her since the government reopened to try and schedule an interview, but she's not responding to my emails for some reason. I've only sent two emails, I figured any more than that would be annoying. How should I handle this?