CRE Private Equity Recruiters - Radio Silent After Call
I’ve had 3 initial phone screenings with different recruiters who have actively reached out to me on LinkedIn for PE associate or debt positions. For two of the interviews, the recruiter said “I’d love to get you in front of ‘X Company’ and see if you’d be a fit.”  One of the recruiters said they’d show my resume to the hiring manager and let me know if they wanted to interview me.

I don’t know if these people are just being unresponsive or flat out lying to me when they say they’re going to follow up with the company to schedule an interview. I have no problem being told that I’m not a fit for the role, I just don’t get why they’d say they want me to interview, then not keep me updated?  These people proactively reached out to me so I’m not sure why they’re acting that way.

I’ve been out of the recruitment and interview process since graduating from undergrad 4 years ago. I’ve worked on the debt side for a +/- $50b Real Estate Investment Manager my whole career. The job market seems pretty ripe right now but I’m trying to get a handle on how recruiters operate.
[{"id": "h1b7je1", "text": "You already know the answer. Think of yourself as a listing, the recruiter as a broker, and the employer as a buyer/tenant. Not every tour leads to a deal, but you've got good activity. Maybe ask them why you haven't moved to the next stage.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "h1blbtr", "text": "Every recruiter I\u2019ve worked with promised Blackstone, Brookfield, and Related. Still waiting on those interviews.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "h1bma2v", "text": "Here's the problem with recruiters.\n\nThere's nothing stopping me from sending you that email, dangling a job at Company X in front of you. In fact, I'm going to send it to literally every single person I can with a whole variety of company names.\n\nIf any of you bite, I turn around and contact Company X and say \"I've got a so and so with [your qualifications], are you interested? I want [huge commission] if you end up hiring them.\"\n\nIf Company X is interested and willing to pay, the interview happens. If not you never hear from the recruiter again - like is happening to you now.\n\nIt sucks for Company X too because some random person now has a bad impression of them, when they never even knew your name in the first place. In fact, there probably was never an open position to begin with.", "replies": [{"id": "h1bo50h", "text": "This is the insight I was looking for", "replies": [{"id": "h1bpc5w", "text": "Very glad it helped!\n\nThe important thing is not to let it color your opinion of Company X or whether you could land that position. They didn't reject you, they rejected some shady recruiter asking for a huge commission to interview an anonymous prospect.\n\nPerhaps this recruiter asked for too much commission, or the company has a policy of only working with certain recruiters because of this exact issue. Either way it has nothing to do with you.", "replies": [{"id": "h1btboa", "text": "I guess I\u2019m just a little confused since there was a job description and in one instance she asked if I\u2019d be interested in another position they were working to fill for KKR. That was entirely unsolicited and it\u2019s tougher to believe they were shopping my resume in this instance since i didn\u2019t get the original role.", "replies": [{"id": "h1bubm6", "text": "Anyone can pull a job description. And anyone can \"work to fill\" a posted job, whether they've been asked to or not.\n\nFWIW, I own a software business and I get these unsolicited emails *all the time*.", "replies": [], "depth": 5}], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "h1bp9ka", "text": "u/Status_Seaweed5945 is correct, they are shopping your resume in order to find openings to fill. To prevent this you should always require that they have an active engagement before sending a resume or accepting a call. It makes you more exclusive, they realize that you are a pro, and you don't waste time. Ask the question up front (\"are you exclusively retained for an active role?\") or better yet for a job description before taking the call.", "replies": [{"id": "h1cqlkj", "text": "Good to know", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "h1e52vw", "text": "I\u2019ve found that most CRE recruiters on LinkedIn don\u2019t really know anything about the industry. I was working with a debt brokerage a couple years ago, and would get messages often from recruiters  about roles at specific lenders. I would nicely respond that if I were to leave my role, the lending side was of no interest and I would only move to the principal side of the business. Multiple times the same recruiter who I just turned down would message me again with days for another role at a lender", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]