About once a month I get an email from a company looking for a highly qualified physicist and software engineer. I happen to be one, yay! But the contents of the email request me do do recruiting on behalf of the company, not desire to hire me. Wtf?
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Depends on the type of work. Cold call academic jobs (i.e., where someone I don't know, or barely know, contacts me), especially senior, used to be maybe 2:1 oblique. Rare these days. Cold call tech jobs is a slight majority for explicit. Non cold calls is totally different.
Though even with the non cold calls people can be surprisingly coy.
