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Why Recruiters Lose Great Candidates

Name: Why Recruiters Lose Great Candidates
Uploaded: 2026-03-04T14:40:47+00:00
Duration: 43 s
Channel: Shally Steckerl
Description: Vital-Baritone describes how recruiters lose candidates by disappearing after handoff. A recruiter tells a candidate the role is urgent, then goes silent…

4 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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Vital-Baritone describes how recruiters lose candidates by disappearing after handoff. A recruiter tells a candidate the role is urgent, then goes silent for two or three weeks. When the candidate follows up, they discover the recruiter never acted on the lead, treating it like a hot potato instead of a responsibility.

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My biggest pet peeves, I get really hard to find candidate, get them engaged. They're not really looking, but they'll consider the opportunity because of the conversation they had with me. I send them to the recruiter and then the candidate never hears back from anybody. Like, just nothing happens. And so they come back to me again. They're like, hey, I haven't heard from anybody. It's been like 2 or 3 weeks. I thought you said this role was, you know, urgent. Like, this doesn't feel very urgent. And I have to go back and check with the recruiter and I'm like, yo, what's going on? I literally passed you a hot potato. Are your hands burning? Because like you've got this hot potato and they'll be like, oh yeah, let me go and let me go and look at that. And that's the first time they're even looking at that. And it's been 3 weeks and I'm like, what? And these are recruiters, so they should know. But just nothing pisses me off more than that.