Human connection counts for something, for some people more consciously than others.
When you know the name and fact of the person you are working with, you're much more likely to have it stand out in your thoughts as something material.
Sometimes that might feel a bit odd with our view of efficiency and rightly so by some measures ... but it's a bit cynical to wrap everything up in a 'sales tactic'.
If recruiters didn't show value I don't think they would be used so they're not just 'selling' something, they are ostensibly 'providing' something.
It's been a while since I've worked on that front, but I do remember job hunting as a lot of 'empty time' I wonder if it's worth contemplating those direct connections as being material to the mechanics of the system overall.
When you know the name and fact of the person you are working with, you're much more likely to have it stand out in your thoughts as something material.
Sometimes that might feel a bit odd with our view of efficiency and rightly so by some measures ... but it's a bit cynical to wrap everything up in a 'sales tactic'.
If recruiters didn't show value I don't think they would be used so they're not just 'selling' something, they are ostensibly 'providing' something.
It's been a while since I've worked on that front, but I do remember job hunting as a lot of 'empty time' I wonder if it's worth contemplating those direct connections as being material to the mechanics of the system overall.