You make a good point. This advice is strongly weighted towards people who still have multiple salary doublings left in their career ladder. At each step up the career ladder, you can afford to be more and more selective around what you're looking for.
This basic script is designed to remove or greatly reduce that time-waste from the early process.
I'd argue that it makes early ghosting a non issue, by reducing the cost of the initial and clear response it cuts through multiple layers of that dance that the spam-cruiters go through.
You're also right about referrals and I don't think this is mutually exclusive with them, instead it is a complimentary passive search protocol.
This basic script is designed to remove or greatly reduce that time-waste from the early process.
I'd argue that it makes early ghosting a non issue, by reducing the cost of the initial and clear response it cuts through multiple layers of that dance that the spam-cruiters go through.
You're also right about referrals and I don't think this is mutually exclusive with them, instead it is a complimentary passive search protocol.