# The Hidden Vacancy > When a recruiter posts a vacancy but closes every contact channel. Looking for candidates in silence is like keeping the vacancy under lock and key. - Canonical page: https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/07/hidden-vacancy/ - Page language: English - Published: 2024-07-26 - Tags: LinkedIn, Career, Humour - Russian version: https://shorin.me/blog/2024/07/hidden-vacancy/index.md I’ve brought you a vacancy, but I’m not going to give it to you! In my post about [“An Undervalued Vacancy”](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/06/undervalued-vacancy/index.md), I joked that, to find the right candidate, “we need to write a selling vacancy and build a buying spiral not only on YY (it no longer works), but on DividedOut (we are tracking the DBI – Distant Buying Index), PlasticWindow and various alleys on Radiogram, including ones hidden from everyone”. I believe that unless a vacancy is confidential, it should be shared through every possible channel instead of being hidden “in alleys on Radiogram that are closed to everyone” – there is simply no sense in that. And yet some recruiters follow Postman Pechkin’s method. I witnessed the following: - A recruiter publishes a vacancy in a LinkedIn post. - They provide no information about where to get in touch: no email address and no Telegram handle. - When asked in the comments where CVs should be sent, they reply, “DM me.” - And yet the recruiter’s account is PRIVATE!! This means that without a Premium subscription, the only people who can message the recruiter directly are their first-degree connections. Everyone else has just two options: - Send the recruiter a connection request and wait for a response. Then send a direct message. - Leave a comment under the recruiter’s post and wait for a response. Dear recruiters, surely you want to receive applications for the vacancy you have posted from as many candidates as possible? So why act out this little scene: “I’ve brought you a vacancy, but I’m not going to give it to you”? ## Media ## Original posts - LinkedIn: