Infuriation: Soliciting for phony jobs, then leaving ads in place after admitting that the jobs don't exist - REPEATEDLY!
Initiative and planning ahead for future openings are good, but false advertising of non-existent jobs is never good. Recruiters are very rarely any good, and Lance Loftin is living, waste-of-oxygen-breathing proof of that. We're sure this is a pattern with him because we caught him in two such instances in just three weeks with the same leap to false advertising.
The first time might be excusable. Leapin' Lance posted a solicitation for an opening in more than one LinkedIn group for a particular discipline. Our first response was within 24 hours of his posting in one such group, but he already had a line ready that "the company has put the position on hold." That's suspicious, but could reasonably be true, so we gave him the benefit of the doubt. There were surely other candidates who responded who identified where they had seen the solicitation, but Leapin' Lance didn't bother to update or delete his ads. We'll never know how many responses he got, how much unnecessary work in editing and submitting resumes he caused, how much false hope he raised.
Within just a couple of weeks, and in just this particular profession, Leapin' Lance posted another ad. Again, we responded the very next day. This time, his leap-of-logic response was that he would be meeting with that company that very afternoon to "see if they actually are going to hire." Again, though, Leapin' Lance, despite being so quick to post the ads, completely abandoned his professional and moral responsibility to edit the solicitation or delete it. Bear in mind that these were just two instances, within two weeks of each other, in just one category of LinkedIn professional groups. We'll never know how many times he's done this all over LinkedIn.
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