Welcome to the Jungle worked exactly as it promised. It put me in front of the right person.
I had updated my profile about a year before this with a clear summary of what I wanted. An internal recruiter role, mid to senior, in a consulting firm or an agency, French-speaking but French not obligatory. After that I left the profile alone. Every six months I updated it when something changed in my career. The talent team at a Paris recruiting firm wrote to me at the end of February. The first message was three sentences. They were hiring an internal recruiter, the role was focused on hiring senior consultants, and they wanted to know if I was interested. I answered yes within an hour, because the description matched my profile summary almost word for word. The first call was with the head of talent. Forty-five minutes. Most of the time she described the firm's hiring process honestly, including the parts that did not work, and asked what I would do differently in the first ninety days. I told her. She disagreed with one part, and we had a useful discussion. Round two was a role-play of a sourcing call. They gave me the profile of an invented candidate, a senior consultant at a competing firm, and asked me to make the first cold ↓