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Every Dead Link in Your Outreach Is a Candidate You Paid For and Lost

232 candidates clicked a job link that no longer existed. Discover how recruiters lose interested candidates, and how one simple redirect can turn dead links into hires.

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Jan Tegze
Nov 02, 2026

232 people clicked a link to a job that no longer existed.

That’s 14% of the 1,657 candidates one recruiter contacted over twelve months. Each of them opened his message, maybe weeks after he sent it, got curious, tapped the link, and landed on a page that said, more or less, “nothing here.” In most agencies and most in-house teams, those people are gone…

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