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Pro tip: If you want a reply to your application, try to avoid cold emailing hiring managers your resume. Often my inbox has a lot happening, and I'm not inclin

Pro tip: If you want a reply to your application, try to avoid cold emailing hiring managers your resume. Often my inbox has a lot happening, and I'm not inclined to spend time copying your resume into our hiring software unless there is something spectacular about your email or background. Emailing hiring managers out of the blue also will not help you bypass any steps in the hiring process. By filling out the application form on our website, you load all the information into the form for me, and are guaranteed that a recruiter will follow up on your entry. If you want to send an email to the hiring manager as well to explain why you are so awesome, that's fine, but it's probably not going to help your chances of getting a job any more than just applying.

madeofpalk 10y ago
I landed an interview at a larger tech company overseas by doing a hybrid approach of cold emailing and I'm 90% sure that's the only reason why I got the interview, and then the job. After applying online through the traditional route I searched for the recruiter's email or linkedin and emailed them to 'follow up' on my application. It was this that I got a reply to, not (necessarily) the application through the website.
alanfranzoni 10y ago
Well... the converse is true as well. I've already got a well polished CV (I usually keep the resume mostly identical for my job applications, while I customize a summary header and I write a dedicated cover letter), an updated LinkedIn profile, a website, a blog, a Stack Overflow jobs profile... and I need to enter that information AGAIN in your system, which is possibly slow, hard to use and/or requires registration, just because your process says so? You'd better be a great company to work with and/or pay very high salaries, or you won't get my attention. Today the developer market is largely driven by developers, not by companies; make sure your practices are not driving potential good candidates away from your company!
antisthenes 10y ago
The only lesson from your post is that your hiring software sucks. Sorry.

madeofpalk 10y ago

I landed an interview at a larger tech company overseas by doing a hybrid approach of cold emailing and I'm 90% sure that's the only reason why I got the interview, and then the job. After applying online through the traditional route I searched for the recruiter's email or linkedin and emailed them to 'follow up' on my application. It was this that I got a reply to, not (necessarily) the application through the website.

alanfranzoni 10y ago

Well... the converse is true as well. I've already got a well polished CV (I usually keep the resume mostly identical for my job applications, while I customize a summary header and I write a dedicated cover letter), an updated LinkedIn profile, a website, a blog, a Stack Overflow jobs profile... and I need to enter that information AGAIN in your system, which is possibly slow, hard to use and/or requires registration, just because your process says so? You'd better be a great company to work with and/or pay very high salaries, or you won't get my attention. Today the developer market is largely driven by developers, not by companies; make sure your practices are not driving potential good candidates away from your company!

antisthenes 10y ago

The only lesson from your post is that your hiring software sucks. Sorry.