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Discussion on: What's the best or worst recruitment line you have heard?

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Yuan Gao • Edited

I can't work out if this is the best or the worst, definitely an eye-roller. I get a lot of emails from recruiters trying to get me to look at their candidates. I'm replacing the name to keep it anonymous.

Subject: Steve needs some help

Morning Yuan,

Dropping you an email as I'm hoping you can help Steve, who was described by his last company as "a natural born leader, highly organized and an extremely innovative and detailed developer”

Steve has been furloughed since June and instead of jumping ship there and then, like many people did, he showed real passion and commitment to his current company, in staying there until they made the difficult decision to make him redundant

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I fully expected the next line to ask me for a small monthly donation, anything I could spare, to help developers in need like Steve.

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Molly Struve (she/her) • Edited

Sounds like Steve might be a Nigerian Prince 😂

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Borna Šepić

Ah Steve, the Nigerian web developer

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Yuan Gao • Edited

He has a web app worth 8000000$ MILLION that was left unclaimed by the previous company, but needs your help to pay a small cloud transfer fee to transfer it out