A consultant got in touch with me via LinkedIn saying that they were very interested in my background and profile as it matched what they were looking for: someone to fill a Product Manager role for one of their clients. The message was short and concise, and provided a link to Randstad's page where the job description could be read... supposedly. Instead, the link offered no description, nor job posting... nothing. The moment the person reached out to me I was actually active on LinkedIn so... It took me roughly 3 mins to reply to the person, saying that - yes, I was interested, but that the provided link displayed that the job offer was no longer available (I provided a screenshot) and hence offered no information whatsoever about the job. Hours passed, and no answer... I visited the person's profile, to trigger the notification I visited their profile and perhaps encourage a response from them... and they in turn visited my own profile, but didn't answer my message. Days passed, and they... ghosted me. They've ignored 3 messages: My initial reply to them noting interest in their offer A second one after a couple of days stating that I've revisited the link and it's still displaying the same message A third one, just stating that I imagine there won't be any further communication from them, and... No. Answer. Whatsoever. Recruiters are getting out of hand with their behaviour - now they ghost people that they themselves contacted? Is this a bad joke? Why are you wasting people's time? What is wrong with these recruiters? I imagine that they have some sort of KPI based on messages sent/people contacted, and are using some system that measures this across multiple platforms - this is the only "logical" explanation I can find for this type of behaviour. By the way - this person is quite active on LinkedIn, as their activity shows several post likes and interactions done over the time they reached out and then proceeded to ignore me....