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"I’ve never met a recruiter on there." I am by no means a fan/regular user of LinkedIn, but if you are an engineer in the Bay Area, LinkedIn is pretty damn grea
by MediumD 8y ago
"I’ve never met a recruiter on there." I am by no means a fan/regular user of LinkedIn, but if you are an engineer in the Bay Area, LinkedIn is pretty damn great for getting random dm's from recruiters.
- imglorp 8y agoThe recruiters who are worth a damn are referred by happy customers and recruits. The ones who resort to spamming random strangers are self-announcing as the other kind.
- codingdave 8y agoThere is also such a thing as a good recruiter who does intelligent searches, finds good matches, and then reaches out selectively to non-random strangers. Those are the ones I actually want to hear from, and I have gotten jobs from such communications via LinkedIn.
- bunderbunder 8y agoIf they really are "spamming random strangers", then sure. And that seems to be most of the contact I get via LinkedIn. But I did have one cold contact from a pretty legit recruiter that ended up turning into a pretty legit job. That may have been a fluke, but it might also be something that happens more often than I realize. Mostly I barely even read the recruiter messages; this one just happened to catch me on a rare day when I'm open to switching jobs.
- marssaxman 8y agoAssuming "dm" is "direct message", why would you want to be randomly pestered by recruiters?
- emodendroket 8y agoI mean you just log in when you're looking for a job and see who's contacted you recently.
- emodendroket 8y agoI feel like the experience might be very different in other industries.