You don’t think answering the phone when a prospective employer calls is a good way of landing a new job?

All your posts in this discussion is full of straw men and twisting peoples' words. Do better. Not fruitful to have a discussion with you. (Like your ranty assumptions about what kind of person someone is, come on...)

And no, if I were to answer the phone where every spammy prospective idiot is calling me it would be multiple times a day. I don't care.